ID 887436
Lot 117 | AN URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO DISH
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
CIRCA 1530-31, WORKSHOP OF NICOLA DA URBINO, PROBABLY BY NICOLA DA URBINO
Painted with the Banquet of the Gods at Mount Olympus, with Hebe serving Zeus, Mercury behind them and Zeus’s eagle at the center, the sky behind them darkened, the scene surrounded by clouds
10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Frédéric Spitzer Collection, sale Chevallier, Paris, 17 April – 16 June 1893, lot 1067.
Eugen Gutmann (1840-1925), Berlin, by 1912 and by descent.
On consignment with The Bachstitz Gallery, The Hague, circa 1921-10 September 1925 (Inv. No. Ru 154), returned to Fritz Gutmann (1886-1944), Amsterdam.
Acquired by Johan Willem Frederiks (1889-1962), The Hague, by 21 September 1954 and by descent,
Lent to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, from 1968,
Gifted to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, (Inv. No. T7) in 1994.
Restituted to the heirs of Fritz Gutmann, 2022.
Literature
Emile Molinier, ‘Les faïences italiennes, hispano-moresques et orientales’ in La Collection Spitzer: Antiquité, Moyen Age, Renaissance, Paris, 1890-92, Vol. IV, no. 125.
Otto von Falke, Die Kunstsammlung Eugen Gutmann, Berlin, 1912, p. 71, no. 219, pl. 57.
Otto von Falke and G. Gronau (eds.), The Bachstitz Gallery Collection, The Hague, not dated, Vol. 3, pl. 41.
H. Vreeken, Kunstnijverheid Middeleeuwen en Renaissance: Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1994, p. 210.
Exhibited
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Kunstschatten uit Nederlandse Verzamelingen, 19 June to 25 September 1955, no. 348.
Applied technique: | Pottery |
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Medium: | Ceramic, Earthenware |
Art style: | Renaissance |
Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
Applied technique: | Pottery |
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Medium: | Ceramic, Earthenware |
Art style: | Renaissance |
Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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