Lot Essay
Similar examples in the Victoria and Albert Museum are illustrated by Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica (London, 1940), Vol. II, pls. 168 and 169, nos. 1054 and 1057.
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CIRCA 1600
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A DERUTA TAZZA
CIRCA 1600
Painted with a central medallion of Cupid holding a shield and spear, within a yellow and ochre ropetwist roundel, the a quartieri and grotteschi border with further shaped circular compartments enclosing fabulous winged female harpies, within a ropetwist rim (chipping to rims)
10 3/8 in. (25.9 cm.) diam.
CIRCA 1600
Painted with a central medallion of Cupid holding a shield and spear, within a yellow and ochre ropetwist roundel, the a quartieri and grotteschi border with further shaped circular compartments enclosing fabulous winged female harpies, within a ropetwist rim (chipping to rims)
10 3/8 in. (25.9 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Bt., DSO, MC, TD, Somerhill, Kent
By descent to Lady d'Avigdor-Goldsmid and Mr and Mrs James Teacher, sale Sotheby's 24th June 1981, lot 485.
By descent to Lady d'Avigdor-Goldsmid and Mr and Mrs James Teacher, sale Sotheby's 24th June 1981, lot 485.
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