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A LARGE URBINO MAIOLICA DOCUMENTARY ARMORIAL ISTORIATO CHARGER

Lot 11
11.10.2023 18:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 11 | A LARGE URBINO MAIOLICA DOCUMENTARY ARMORIAL ISTORIATO CHARGER
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A LARGE URBINO MAIOLICA DOCUMENTARY ARMORIAL ISTORIATO CHARGER

DATED 1541, BY FRANCESCO XANTO AVELLI IN FRANCESCO DA SILVANO’S WORKSHOP

Painted with the storming of La Goletta, soldiers on ladders scaling the fortified towers, one soldier holding a large fluttering banner inscribed SPQR, the border to the right with a scrolling escutcheon with the arms of Ferrante Gonzaga-Guastalla suspending the collar and badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the reverse inscribed ·M·D·XXXXI· / Da Carlo d’Austria Imperator potente / L’alta Goletta inespugnabil tanto / Astretta, e, presa con furor repen[te] and In Urbino, nella / botteg[a] di Francesco / de S[il]vano· / ·X· within yellow double concentric circle borders at the edge of the well and rim

18 3/8 in. (46.7 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Ferrante Gonzaga-Guastalla (1507-1557), Duke of Ariano.

Joseph Marryat Collection by 1850, his sale; Christie’s, London, 18th February 1867, lot 849, and illustrated p. 84 (£58 to Wareham).

Baron James de Rothschild (1792-1868).

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905).

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France (ERR inv. no. R 4060).

Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section.

Returned to France on 9 January 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

Joseph Marryat, Collections Towards a History of Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1850, pp. 24-25, Fig. 12 (woodcut illustration).

Joseph Marryat, A History of Pottery and Porcelain, Mediaeval and Modern, London, 1857, pp. 429-430, no. 5244.

John Charles 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 (revised edition), London, 1863, no. 5244.

Joseph Marryat, A History of Pottery and Porcelain, Mediaeval and Modern, London, 1868, p. 64 (where he notes that it was in the collection of Baron James de Rothschild in note 4).

Joseph Marryat, A History of Pottery and Porcelain, Mediaeval and Modern, London (third edition), 1868, pp. 64 and 106.

Collections de M. le baron Alphonse de Rothschild, circa 1900 (n.d.), Vol. I.

J.V.G. Mallet, ‘La Biografia di Francesco Xanto Avelli alla Luce dei Suoi Sonetti’ in Faenza, LXX, 1984, 5-6, p. 399, pls. CIX and CX.

Cited by Alfred Darcel, ‘Le moyen-âge et la renaissance au Trocadéro: 4e article: Les faïences italiennes’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 2nd series, 18, 1878, p. 975.

J.V.G. Mallet, Xanto, Pottery Painter, Poet, Man of the Renaissance, Wallace Collection January-April 2007 Exhibition Catalogue, London, 2007, p. 38, fig. 26, p. 37 and p. 14 (where Mallet notes that the occurrence of Xanto signing a work in Francesco da Silvano’s workshop is unique).

Noted by E.P. Sani, ‘List of works by or attributable to Francesco Xanto Avelli’ in J.V.G. Mallet, ibid., 2007, p. 200, no. 392.

Cited by Timothy Wilson, The Golden Age of Italian Maiolica-Painting, Turin, 2018, p. 164.

Cited by Timothy Wilson and Cristina Maritano, L’Italia del Rinascimento, Lo splendore della maiolica, Palazzo Madama, Turin, June – October 2019 Exhibition Catalogue, Turin, 2019, p. 112.

Timothy Wilson, Tin-Glaze and Image Culture, the MAK Maiolica Collection in its wider context, The MAK, Vienna, April – August Exhibition Catalogue, Stuttgart, 2022, p. 38, figs. 2 and 3.



Exhibited

London, South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria & Albert Museum), Special Exhibition of Works of Art, June 1862, no. 5244.

Paris, Trocadero, Exposition Universelle, May-November 1878.
Medium:Ceramic
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
Category:Сharger
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