ID 1027548
Lot 194 | A GUBBIO MAIOLICA RUBY AND GOLD LUSTRED ARMORIAL PLATE
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 25 000
CIRCA 1525
The central shield painted with a unicorn rampant, the shield with fluttering ribbons and against a landscape enclosed by a broad lustre band at the well, the blue-ground border reserved with brightly colored and lustred grotesques punctuated by four urns issuing foliage and alternating with cornucopias crossed with dolphins, spaced by eight radiating leaves, the reverse with concentric lustred bands, with part of an oval collection label printed with 'K.(?) 34'
12 in. (30.3 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Probably commissioned for a member of the Pifati family of Verona or the Bonaiuti family of Florence, circa 1525.
Debruge-Duménil collection, his sale; Bonnefons de Lavialle, 23 January-9 February and 4-12 March 1850, lot 1144.
Prince Soltykoff collection, his sale; Pillet, Paris, 8 April-1 May 1861, lot 681 (sold to Mannheim for 760 Francs).
Alexander Barker, 103 Piccadilly, London, by 1862.
Perhaps the dish sold in Alexander Barker’s posthumous sale; Christie's, London, 6-8 June 1874, lot 126.
The Collection of the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
Jules Labarte, Description des objets d'art qui composent la collection Debruge Dumenil, Paris, 1847, p. 679, no. 1144.
J.C. Robinson (ed.), Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and more recent periods, on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862, London, 1863 (revised edition), p. 423, no. 5222.
Exhibited
London, South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria & Albert Museum), Special Exhibition of Works of Art, June 1862, no. 5222 (lent by Alexander Barker).
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes, Plates |
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes, Plates |
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