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AN URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO DISH

Lot 117
25.01.2023 16:00UTC +00:00
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ID 887436
Lot 117 | AN URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO DISH
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
AN URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO DISH

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
Medium:Ceramic, Earthenware
Art style:Renaissance
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Plates & Dishes
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