TWO BERNARD PALISSY GONDOLA CUPS OR SAUCEBOATS

CIRCA 1600

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TWO BERNARD PALISSY GONDOLA CUPS OR SAUCEBOATS
CIRCA 1600
The first allegorical of Autumn, moulded with Bacchus drinking from a goblet and seated upon a barrel, surrounded by fruiting vines, the second allegorical of Spring, moulded with a woman holding two cornucopia of flowers
The first 8¼ in. (20.9 cm.) long (2)

Provenance

The Flahaut Collection.
Bearing paper labels for 'Astor of Hever, No. 2'.

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Lot Essay

A comparative example to the first, depicting Bacchus and Ceres can be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum, No. C.2311-1910. Another of the same design is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, No. 17.190.2048. For an example depicting Venus and Mars, see Hugo Morley-Fletcher and Roger McIlroy, Christie's Pictorial History of European Pottery, (London, 1984), p. 176, pl. 2.

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