AN URBINO MAIOLICA LUSTRED ISTORIATO PLATE

Lot 116
25.01.2023 16:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 116 | AN URBINO MAIOLICA LUSTRED ISTORIATO PLATE
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$ 100 000 – 150 000
AN URBINO MAIOLICA LUSTRED ISTORIATO PLATE

1539, BY FRANCESCO XANTO AVELLI, THE LUSTRE APPLIED IN GUBBIO, PROBABLY IN THE WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO GIORGIO ANDREOLI

Painted with the story of The Sword of Damocles, with Damocles seated on a throne at a table, waited on by servants, the sword above him, King Dionysus on the right, the reverse inscribed in blue with .1539. / L’inquieta vita del / tira[n] Dionisi. / ·X· within lustred scrolls

10 7/8 in. (27.5 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Henry G. Bohn Collection, Twickenham, United Kingdom, circa 1857.

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 155), 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. T9) in 1994.

Restituted to the heirs of Fritz Gutmann, 2022.



Literature

Henry G. Bohn, A Guide to the Knowledge of Pottery, Porcelain, and Other Objects of Vertu, Comprising an Illustrated Catalogue of the Bernal Collection of Works of Art, London, 1857, p. XII in 'An Illustrated Lecture' and p. 441.

William Chaffers, F.S.A, Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1863, p. 49 (the mark).

Otto von Falke, Die Kunstsammlung Eugen Gutmann, Berlin, 1912, p. 71, no. 221.

Otto von Falke and G. Gronau (eds.), The Bachstitz Gallery Collection, The Hague, not dated, Vol. 3, pl. 43.

H. Vreeken, Kunstnijverheid Middeleeuwen en Renaissance: Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1994, p. 207.

Elisa Paola Sani, ‘List of works by or attributable to Francesco Xanto Avelli’ in J.V.C. Mallet, Xanto, Pottery-Painter, Poet, Man of the Italian Renaissance, Wallace Collection January-April 2007 Exhibition Catalogue, London, 2007, p. 200, no. 373.



Exhibited

Manchester, United Kingdom, Art Treasures of Great Britain, 5 May to 17 October 1857.
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