Lot 12: f - AN URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO TAZZA PAINTED BY FRANCESCO DURANTINO, DATED 1549

f - AN URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO TAZZA PAINTED BY FRANCESCO DURANTINO, DATED 1549

PAINTED BY FRANCESCO DURANTINO, DATED 1549

25.6cm., 10 1/16 in.

painted in shades of blue, green, ochre, yellow and manganese, heightened in white, with a scene depicting the story of Priapus and Lotis, the reverse inscribed in blue 'priapo e lotos / 1549', the rims with yellow borders

Condition Note: some minor retouching to yellow enamel on rim, tiny restored rim chip with small extended haircrack to glaze on exterior of rim, test drill holes to edge of footrim

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PROVENANCE

with Cyril Humphris, London;
Arthur M. Sackler Collection, no.82.3.3;
his sale, Christie's New York, 1st June 1994, lot 25

EXHIBITED

1986-88, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Italian Maiolica from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, no.86

NOTE

See J.Lessmann, Italienische Majolika, nos. 162, 166 and 168, for examples of inscriptions in a closely similar hand attributed to Francesco Durantino.

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381s27, dated January 1986, from the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, stating that the sample tested was last fired between 400 and 610 years ago (1376-1586).