Italian, Deruta, vers 1520 - 1530
An armorial dish
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
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Description
Painted at the centre with an Abbot or Bishop’s coat of arms within a shield and bianco sopra bianco well, the border decorated with grotesque scrolls, divided by medallions, two of which include Roman Emperors profiles heads, the reverse with a letter “P” at the centre with foliate scrolls.
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
42cm. diameter, 16½in.
Auguste Dutuit Collection;
Sotheby's London, 23 February 1988, lot 180;
Sotheby's New York, Cyril Humphris Collection, 10 January 1995, lot 36.
Paris, Palais du Trocadéro, Exposition Universelle, May-November 1878 (as Cafaggiolo).
A. Darcel, 'Le Moyen-Âge et la Renaissance au Trocadéro : 4e article : Les faïences italiennes', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 2nd series, 18, 1878, p. 970, and illustrated on p. 973.
Large Deruta dishes were usually lead-glazed and undecorated on the back, to avoid the cost of imported tin; only the finest large plates, like the present one, have tin-glazed and decorated reverses. The letter P may indicate the initial of the pottery painter or family workshop. The senior cleric whose unidentified arms appear in the centre may hold a clue to the dating of this exceptional plate.
The source of the medallion portraits depicting Roman emperors is the Twelve Caesars by Marcantonio Raimondi, from the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae series.
RELATED LITERATURE
C. Fiocco and G. Gherardi, La ceramica di Deruta, Perugia, 1944, no.146, p.252
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