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    Italian Ceramic Art 1400-1900

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    22 April 2008

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    • A MONTELUPO CIRCULAR DISH
    Lot 6

    A MONTELUPO CIRCULAR DISH

    CIRCA 1500

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    GBP 3,750

    Estimate

    GBP 3,000 - GBP 5,000

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    A MONTELUPO CIRCULAR DISH
    CIRCA 1500
    Boldly painted and edged with manganese lines, the central green and ochre chequered medallion within ochre, blue and yellow concentric bands, the border with interwoven angular blue ribbons with stylised foliage at the intersections, within further bands and a white rim (broken into three sections, repaired and stapled, very small areas of associated over-painting, rim with flaking and very slight chipping)
    14 3/8 in. (36.5 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 472.

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    Lot Essay

    For fragments found at Montelupo decorated with a very similar pattern, see Galeazzo Cora, Storia della maiolica di Firenze del contado, Secoli XIV e XV (Florence, 1973), pls. 247b and 267a, where they are dated by Cora to 1490-1500. For the example of very similar type in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, see B. Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica (London, 1940), Vol. II., pl. 56, no. 354 and Cora ibid, pl. 245, no. 245a. For the example in the Bargello, see Giovanni Conti, Museo Nazionale di Firenze Palazzo del Bargello, Catalogo delle Maioliche (Florence, 1971), no. 113. For an example in the British Museum with a more elaborate version of this pattern, see Timothy Wilson, Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance (London, 1987), p. 88, no. 132, which he dates to 1500-1530.

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