Probably by the workshop of Guido Durantino (Fontana)
An istoriato plate with Joseph sold by his brothers
No reserve
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Italian, Urbino, circa 1550
painted with two camels in the distant landscape, inscribed on reverse in blue Josepho fuvenduto allismaeli / tj. (the inscription translates as “Joseph was sold to the Ishmaelites”)
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Diam. 27cm., 10⅝in.
Christie's London, Comte Albéric du Chastel de la Howarderie, 4 October 1976, lot 225;
Sotheby's London, 16 October 1989, lot 133;
Jacob Stodel, London;
Where acquired, in November 1989.
The painting appears to be by the same hand as a plate showing Jonah previously in the Sprovieri Collection (T. Wilson, Italian Maiolica of the Renaissance, Milan, 1996, no. 119). The print source is Georg Pencz, 1546 (fig.1). The painter, whose work is akin to that of the painter of a service with the arms of Carafa on the reverse, probably worked in the studio of Guido Durantino (Fontana) (see R. Gresta, I Lanfranco dalle Gabicce, 2020, nos. 61-64, who attributes the Carafa service to Pesaro, circa 1557).
RELATED LITERATURE
C. Ravanelli Guidotti, Ceramiche Occidentali del Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna, Bologna, 1985, no. 151, pp. 196-197.
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