Italian, Duchy of Urbino, circa 1540-1560
A hand-warmer in the form of a book
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5,000 - 7,000 EUR
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Description
Painted with an oak-leaf decoration in blue, green, yellow and orange
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
14.4 by 13.3cm, 5⅝ by 5¼in.
Sotheby's London, 22 November 1983, lot 169;
Angela von Wallwitz, Munich, 1997;
Where acquired
The decoration a cerquate is an armorial motif used in Urbino from the 1530s as a celebrative ornament for the Grand Ducal family of Della Rovere, as discussed by Cipriano Piccolpasso in his treatise Li tre libri dell’arte del vasaio, circa 1557 (National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London). The oak leaves with acorns refer to the principal device in the heraldry of the Della Rovere family Dukes of Urbino.
Hausmann in Fioritura, 2002, no. 20 discusses this type of hand-warmer, noting other possible uses of these objects and listing other examples.
For this type of handwarmer check lot 504.
RELATED LITERATURE
D. Thornton and T. Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London 2009, no.221, p.375;
T. Hausmann, Fioritura, Berlin, 2002, no.20.
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