Property of a Private Collector
Workshop of Maestro Giorgio (1465/1470 - 1553 Gubbio) Italian, Urbino or Casteldurante, dated 1537
Footed Dish
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January 27, 09:38 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
Lot Details
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Property of a Private Collector
Workshop of Maestro Giorgio (1465/1470 - 1553 Gubbio)
Italian, Urbino or Casteldurante, dated 1537
Footed Dish
with profile portrait of a woman and painted with CANTANORA · BELLAreverse adorned by lustered foliated scrolls and dated 1537 with partially obscured signature of Maestro Giorgio, and two paper tags numbered 42 and 465
lustered tin-glazed earthenware
diameter 9 ¼ in.; 23.5cm.
Parke-Bernet Galleries New York, 9 October 1943, lot 465;
Collection of Kate and George Elderkin, Princeton, New Jersey;
Thence by descent to the current owner.
Portraits of women were popular subjects in Renaissance maiolica. Called Bella donna dishes, these objects are believed to have been used as gifts from suitors to the women they were courting. A pronounced forehead, as seen in the present piece, is a characteristic commonly found on plates from Casteldurante and Urbino.
These dishes were then lustered in Gubbio by the workshop of Maestro Giorgio, whose unique technique of applying an additional layer of red and gold metallic luster to his works established his studio as one of the most popular in 16th century Italy.
RELATED LITERATURE
T. Wilson, Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1987, p. 147.
C. Join-Dieterle, Catalogue de Ceramiques I: Hispano-Mauresques, Majoliques Italiennes, Iznik - des Collections Dutuit, Ocampo et Pierre Marie, Musee du Petit Palais, Paris, 1984, p. 160-161.
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