The Painter “Lu Ur”, Italian, Urbino, signed and dated 1533
An istoriato dish with an allegory of the Emperor Charles V and of the Sack of Rome
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Estimate
25,000 - 40,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Painted with an allegory of the Emperor Charles V and of the Sack of Rome, in blue, green, manganese, ochre and in shades of yellow on white ground; on the reverse inscribed: “·1533· Carlo quinto di Roma / Scuopre & cerera/ Nel libro ,e, (and a squiggle) / I[n] Urbino/ L” (Charles V uncovers Rome et cetera, in book… in Urbino L); painted in red with the Sackler Collection number 78.2.3
Tin glazed earthenware (maiolica)
25.5cm. Diameter; 10in.
Philip N. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, PA sale;
Sotheby's New York, 2 March 1974, lot 38;
Cyril Humphris, London;
Arthur Sackler Collection;
His sale, Christie’s New York, part II, 1 June 1994, lot 22;
Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Munich;
Rainer Zietz Ltd., London, 2010.
Where acquired.
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Arts, Sixteenth-Century Italian Maiolica from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection and from the National Gallery of Art’s Widener Collection, 5 September 1982 - 2 January 1983, no. 52;
San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor, Italian Maiolica from the Arthur M. Ackler Collections, 1986-1988, no.77.
C. Castelletti, “Le allegorie del Sacco di Roma del 1527 nella maiolica di Francesco Xanto Avelli,” in 1527. Il sacco di Roma, edited by Sabine Frommel and Jérôme Delaplanche, with the collaboration of Claudio Castelletti, Rome, 2020, p. 193-208;
T. Wilson, The Golden Age of Italian Maiolica Painting. Catalogue of a private collection, Turin, 2018, p. 266 note 11;
T. Wilson, “Il pittore di maiolica ‘Lu Ur’.” Fimantiquari Arteviva, vol. 2, no. 2, 1993, pp. 19-31;
J. V. G. Mallet, ‘Xanto: i suoi compagni e seguaci’ in Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo, Atti del convegno Internazionale di Studi 1980, Rovigo, pp. 67-108, fig. 14 a, b.
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