Property from a European Collection
Italian, Urbino, probably Workshop of Guido Durantino (Fontana) and his Son, Orazio Fontana, dated 1541
Istoriato Shallow Bowl with Venus and her Daughters
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February 7, 08:37 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a European Collection
Italian, Urbino, probably Workshop of Guido Durantino (Fontana) and his Son, Orazio Fontana
dated 1541
Istoriato Shallow Bowl with Venus and her Daughters
inscribed and dated on the reverse: Venare con le foi figlie – 1541; with sale tag and modern collector’s number on reverse
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
diameter: 11 ⅛ in.; 28.2 cm.
Sotheby’s London, 16 March 1976, lot 17.
The subject could be interpreted as Amphitrite or Galatea (adapted from Raphael's Galatea in the Villa Farnesina), but the inscription provides the intended subject.
RELATED LITERATURE
G. Liverani, 'Un Piatto a Montpellier Marcato da Orazio Fontana ed, Altri Ancora' in Faenza 43, 1957, pp. 3-11;
D. Thornton and T. Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics - A Catalogue of the British Museum, vol. I, no 176.