The Collection of Hester Diamond Part I
The Collection of Hester Diamond Part I
Jacopo di Cione
Madonna Nursing the Christ Child with Saints Lawrence and Margaret; Predella: the Man of Sorrows, Mater Dolorosa, and Saint John the Evangelist, with two coats of arms
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January 29, 04:53 PM GMT
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300,000 - 500,000 USD
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Jacopo di Cione
Documented in Florence 1365 - 1398
Madonna Nursing the Christ Child with Saints Lawrence and Margaret; Predella: the Man of Sorrows, Mater Dolorosa, and Saint John the Evangelist, with two coats of arms
bears two coats of arms, possibly the Bonciani and Pollia families, in the lower predella
tempera and gold ground on panel, with a shaped top, in an engaged frame
central panel: 17 ⅞ by 13 ½ in.; 45.5 by 34.3 cm.
predella: 1 ½ by 15 ⅛ in.; 3.8 by 38.5 cm.
With A.L. Mayer, Munich;
Pardo collection, Paris, 1966 - 1968;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 9 December 1988, lot 7 (as Master of the Ashmolean Museum Predella);
There acquired by Harari and Johns, Ltd.;
From whom acquired, 1989.
The lot is being offered for sale pursuant to an agreement between the consignor and the heir of August Liebmann Mayer. This resolves any dispute over ownership of the work and title will pass to the buyer free from claim.
B. Berenson, Homeless Paintings of the Renaissance, Bloomington, IN 1969, p. 106, reproduced (as possibly Jacopo di Cione);
M. Boskovits, Pittura Fiorentina alla Vigilia del Rinascimento 1370-1400, 1975, p. 372 (as the design possibly by Jacopo di Cione);
R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. The Fourteenth Century, Supplement, A Legacy of Attribution, 1981, p. 54, reproduced fig. 123 (as the Master of the Vatican Coronation).