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拍品专文
This tondino is from a set of which at least six other examples are known to have survived(1), most of which bear the date 1518(2). It has been suggested that the cypher on the central badge may be the that of the Santa Maria della Scala hospital in Siena, KO may be an abbreviation of Camerlengo (chamberlain), and the initial FG may refer to Fra Giovanni di Benedetto, who was chamberlain of the hospital(3).
The other known surviving pieces from the set are two dated examples in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London(4), a dated example in the British Museum, London(5), a dated example in the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (with the workshop mark of Maestro Giorgio and dated 18 March 1518)(6), and another piece published in 1947, the current location of which is unknown(7).
When this tondino was exhibited in 1865, the catalogue noted the ownership as the being the same as previous lots, and the small plate listed three items earlier is recorded as being lent by M. Basilewski. This tondino is absent from Darcel and Basilewski’s 1874 catalogue of the Basilewski collection, and nor is there a similar example in St. Petersburg (the majority of the collection was sold privately to the Tsar of Russia), so if the ownership details in the exhibition catalogue were correct, Basilewski must have sold it privately.
1. A large ewer-stand formerly in the Schlossmuseum, Berlin, is thought to have been destroyed in the Second World War; see Gaetano Ballardini, Corpus della Maiolica Italiana, 1933, Vol. I, no. 69, fig. 66, 252R.
2. One of the two dated examples in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, was previously thought to bear the date 8 March 1517 on the obverse in addition to 1518 on the reverse, but after conservation of the piece in 2011, the inscription 8 Marte on the obverse was discovered to be a restorer’s addition. The inscription may originally have been ama dio and 1517.
3. Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 2009, Vol. II, p. 490.
4. Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London, 1940, Vol. I, pp. 216-217, nos. 642 and 643 and Vol. II, pl. 101. (No. 642 bears the later inscription on the obverse added by a restorer).
5. Thornton and Wilson, ibid., 2009, Vol. II, pp. 488-490, no. 295.
6. Gaetano Ballardini, Corpus della Maiolica Italiana, 1933, Vol. I, no. 67, figs. 64 and 256R.
7. See the Corrigenda and Addenda for the British Museum catalogue on Professor Timothy Wilson’s website for further information.
The other known surviving pieces from the set are two dated examples in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London(4), a dated example in the British Museum, London(5), a dated example in the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (with the workshop mark of Maestro Giorgio and dated 18 March 1518)(6), and another piece published in 1947, the current location of which is unknown(7).
When this tondino was exhibited in 1865, the catalogue noted the ownership as the being the same as previous lots, and the small plate listed three items earlier is recorded as being lent by M. Basilewski. This tondino is absent from Darcel and Basilewski’s 1874 catalogue of the Basilewski collection, and nor is there a similar example in St. Petersburg (the majority of the collection was sold privately to the Tsar of Russia), so if the ownership details in the exhibition catalogue were correct, Basilewski must have sold it privately.
1. A large ewer-stand formerly in the Schlossmuseum, Berlin, is thought to have been destroyed in the Second World War; see Gaetano Ballardini, Corpus della Maiolica Italiana, 1933, Vol. I, no. 69, fig. 66, 252R.
2. One of the two dated examples in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, was previously thought to bear the date 8 March 1517 on the obverse in addition to 1518 on the reverse, but after conservation of the piece in 2011, the inscription 8 Marte on the obverse was discovered to be a restorer’s addition. The inscription may originally have been ama dio and 1517.
3. Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 2009, Vol. II, p. 490.
4. Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London, 1940, Vol. I, pp. 216-217, nos. 642 and 643 and Vol. II, pl. 101. (No. 642 bears the later inscription on the obverse added by a restorer).
5. Thornton and Wilson, ibid., 2009, Vol. II, pp. 488-490, no. 295.
6. Gaetano Ballardini, Corpus della Maiolica Italiana, 1933, Vol. I, no. 67, figs. 64 and 256R.
7. See the Corrigenda and Addenda for the British Museum catalogue on Professor Timothy Wilson’s website for further information.