A Faenza maiolica berrettino-ground dated armorial charger, 1532, workshop of Piero and Paulo Bergantini
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A Faenza maiolica berrettino-ground dated armorial charger, 1532, workshop of Piero and Paulo Bergantini
painted with a coat-of-arms supported by four winged putti, above a winged putto mask and surmounted by a calf recumbent, on a dark blue-ground within a roundel edged with a dentil border below beading, the cavetto in bianco-sopra-bianco with flowers, foliage and interlaced ribbon, the broad dark blue-ground border with grotesques of masks, dolphins and winged cherub heads, three of the winged masks surmounted by elongated panels bearing the date 1532, the underside painted with a wheel to the centre below scrolls, the underside of the rim with a fretted petal band
diameter 17 in., 43,2 cm.
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Plat en majolique "a berrettino", armorié et daté 1532, atelier de Piero et Paulo Bergantini
diameter 17 in., 43,2 cm.
Christie's London, 5 July, 2012 lot 88.
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Christie's Londres, 5 juillet 2012, lot 88.
For a dated lustred bowl from the service in the British Museum, London, see D. Thornton and T. Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection, 2009, Vol. II. pp. 514-515, no. 314.
Niccolò II Vitelli (1496-1529) was commander of the Papal Guard after the Sacking of Rome in 1527. It has been said that Vitelli killed his wife Gentilina della Staffa, who in turn was killed by her lover, Nicola Bracciolini in 1529.
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