Important Renaissance Maiolica

thu 1 October 2015
Live auction 46
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€ 20.000 / 30.000
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LARGE DISH

URBINO, FONTANA’S WORKSHOP, C. 1570

Earthenware, painted in light blue, green, yellow, orange-yellow, and manganese.

H. 4.4 cm; diam. 44.4 cm; foot diam. 28.7 cm. 

On the back, beneath the base, inscription in cobalt blue ‘Venere sene va aspasso p(er) il mare con/le Nereide apuleio nel primo dela/faula di psiche’; label, typewritten with ‘C. 13747’.