Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Italian, Castel Durante or Urbino, circa 1520-25
Shallow Cup
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February 2, 05:19 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Italian, Castel Durante or Urbino, circa 1520-25
Shallow Cup
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
diameter: 8 ⅛ in.; 20.4 cm.
painted with a profile of King Stordilano, seen in profile to left, wearing a Byzantine-style mitre with a jeweled crown woven with a twisted fabric, with a white banderole painted with the inscription RZ STORDILANO (Rex Stordilano), the reverse with old circular label: “collection A. Imbert Rome n° 833”
Alexandre Imbert (1865-1943), Rome;
Christie’s Milan, 8 June 2004, lot 140.
Paris, Union centrale des arts décoratifs, Pavillon de Marsan, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Faïences italiennes de la collection Al. Imbert, May 1911 - May 1914.
A. Dubrujeaud, Faïences italiennes de la collection Al. Imbert, exhibition catalogue, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, Société française d'Imprimerie et de Librairie, May 1911, no. 452.