Workshop of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli

Maiolica broad-rimmed bowl

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25,000 - 35,000 GBP

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Description

Property from a Swiss Private Collection

Workshop of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli

Probably by the Painter of the Judgment of Paris

Italian, Gubbio, circa 1518-1521

Maiolica broad-rimmed bowl

tin-glazed earthenware

lustred in gold and red and painted in blue, ochre, red and white, centred by an anonymous coat of arms flanked by the crowned initials AE and an eagle, heraldic symbol of Duke Alfonso I d’Este. The rim is decorated with two symmetrical dolphins or fantastic monsters with tails morphing into cornucopiae, below the head of a winged putto. Concentric lines and stylized flowers in red lustre and a Metropolitan Museum of Art loan number painted in red ‘’ L.37.30.85’’ on the reverse

diameter: 21.7cm., 8 ½in.

Alessandro Castellani, Paris;
His sale, Catalogue des Faiences italiennes, Paris, Drouot, Ch. Pillet et Charles Mannheim, 27-29 May 1878, n° 60;
Achille Fanien (1827-1915), Lillers, industriel;
Mortimer Leo Schiff, New York, since 1913 or earlier;
His sale, The Magnificent Collection of Italian Majolica formed by the late Mortimer L. Schiff, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 4 May 1946, n° 92;
Brimo de la roussilhe, Paris, 1996;
Altomani & Sons, Pesaro;
Christie's, London, The Pottery of Princes. An Important Private Collection of Italian Maiolica, 5 July 2012, n° 71;
Hampel Fine Art Auctions, Munich, 27-28 June 2013, n° 508.

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1877;
Paris, Jacques Séligmann, 23 rue de Constantine 75007, May-June 1913;
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917-1919;
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1937-1941;
Paris, Carrousel du Louvre, XVIII Biennale Internationale des Antiquaires,13-29 September 1996.

Special catalogue of the collection of antiquities exhibited by Signor Alessandro Castellani of Rome, Italian Centennial Commission, Philadelphia 1876, p. 92, n° 52;
Catalogue of The Castellani Collection in the Loan Exhibition of The Metropolitan, Museum of Art, New York, 1877, II, n° 60;
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance organisée par la marquise de Ganay chez M. Jacques Séligmann, Paris, Philippe Renouard, 1913, n° 174.