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拍品專文
The present dish and the accompanying piece are exciting additions to the surviving pieces from an early armorial set, of which nine other pieces are known. One of these pieces, a tondino in the Lehman collection, New York(1) is dated 1521, providing a probable date for the set. A plate is in the Musée du Louvre, another is in the Musée des Antiquités, Rouen, a tondino is in the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, two tondini are in the Museo Civico, Bologna, a tondino was sold by Sotheby’s, London, on 21 November 1978, lot 43, and another undated example is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York(2). The arms are for the Di Dato family of Florence(3), but neither the member of that family for whom the set was made, nor the circumstances of the commission, are currently known.
Pieces from this set with their a candelieri decoration were previously thought to have been made at Castel Durante and sent to Gubbio for lustring, but it is now generally accepted that they were both made and lustred at Gubbio. The present lot appears to be by a different hand from the other piece from the set in this sale.
1. Jörg Rasmussen, Italian Majolica in the Robert Lehman Collection, New York, 1989, pp. 188-189, where the date is inscribed on a shield which is part of the grotesques.
2. For the example in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and a list of the other known pieces, which does not include the present two lots in this sale, see Julia E. Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1995,
pp. 218-221, no. 295. The second (undated) piece in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ‘has a streaky blue ground’ (inventory number 41.100.277).
3. This identification was made by Giacomotti, Les majoliques des Musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, p. 231, no. 754.
Pieces from this set with their a candelieri decoration were previously thought to have been made at Castel Durante and sent to Gubbio for lustring, but it is now generally accepted that they were both made and lustred at Gubbio. The present lot appears to be by a different hand from the other piece from the set in this sale.
1. Jörg Rasmussen, Italian Majolica in the Robert Lehman Collection, New York, 1989, pp. 188-189, where the date is inscribed on a shield which is part of the grotesques.
2. For the example in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and a list of the other known pieces, which does not include the present two lots in this sale, see Julia E. Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1995,
pp. 218-221, no. 295. The second (undated) piece in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ‘has a streaky blue ground’ (inventory number 41.100.277).
3. This identification was made by Giacomotti, Les majoliques des Musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, p. 231, no. 754.