AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ALLEGORICAL CHARGER

Lot 151
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 151 | AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ALLEGORICAL CHARGER
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 25 000
AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ALLEGORICAL CHARGER

CIRCA 1520-1550, POSSIBLY UMBRIA OR NORTHERN LAZIO

The center painted with an allegory of Love, with Cupid blindfolded and tied to the mast of a four-wheeled chariot, a fortified town in the distance, a dog chasing a hare in the foreground, the sky with an unfurled ribbon-tied scroll inscribed EL·C / ARR / O · DEL / · LAMO · RE ·, the blue-ground border reserved with scrolling foliage and cornucopias divided by four oval medallions, the two at the sides with profile portraits, one with a woman and the letters ·B· and ·A· and the other with a man in a turban and the letters ·G· and ·C·

15 7/8 in. (40.3 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Possibly Prince Soltykoff collection, his sale; Pillet, Paris, 8 April-1 May 1861, lot 748 (sold to Mannheim for 442 francs).

The Collection of the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.
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