Property from a Swiss Private Collection, Lots 630–637 formerly in the Rothschild Collection
Attributed to Maestro della Cappella Brancaccio, Italian, probably Naples, circa 1465-90
Albarello with a Portrait identified as Alfonso, Duke of Calabria and later King of Naples
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February 7, 08:37 PM GMT
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18,000 - 25,000 USD
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Property from a Swiss Private Collection, Lots 630–637 formerly in the Rothschild Collection
Attributed to Maestro della Cappella Brancaccio
Italian, probably Naples, circa 1465-90
Albarello with a Portrait identified as Alfonso, Duke of Calabria and later King of Naples
profile to left on an emerald green ground, with a floating banderole inscribed B NBIA ·BIA ·B NB, an oval label with the number 44459 under the foot and two Metropolitan Museum of Art loan numbers painted in red: L.1660. 79 and L.3730.79
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), also glazed on the interior
height: 12 ½ in.; 32.5 cm
Docteur B…, Paris [identified by Wilson in 2016 as Dr. Belliol];
Cesare and Ercole Canessa, Paris, New York and Milan;
Arthur Sambon;
Mortimer L. Schiff, New York;
His sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 4 May 1946, lot 35;
Doctor Bak, New York;
His sale, Sotheby's London, 7 December 1965, lot 36 (attributed to a Faenza factory);
Jean-Georges Rueff;
Palais Galliera, Paris, 7 March 1970, lot 7;
Cyril Humphris;
Private Collection, Italy.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, from 1916 - 1919;
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, from 1937 - 1941.
Catalogue des objets d’art et de curiosite, faiences italiennes et francaises, porcelaines et faiences variees, gres allemands, objets divers, verrerie, armes, …vente, apres deces de M. le docteur B…, Paris Mannheim, 23 - 24 April 1909, p. 7, n. 46;
Catalogue of objects of art and high curiosity, Paris, 25-28 May 1914, p. 69, no. 240;
S. de Ricci, A Catalogue of Early Italian Maiolica in the Collection of Mortimer L. Schiff, New York, 1927, no. 42;
G. Donatone, Maioliche napoletane della spezieria aragonese di Castelnuovo, Naples, Luigi Regina, 1970, pl. 21;
G. Conti, L’art della maiolica in Italia, Milan Bramante, 1973, fig. 55;
G. Conti, L’art della maiolica in Italia, Milan Bramante, 1980, fig. 14;
G. Donatone, La maiolica napoletana del rinascimento, Naples, 1993, p. 35, pl. 8, fig. 118;
G. Donatone, La maiolica napoletana dagli Aragonesi al Cinquecento, Naples Paparo Edizioni, 2013, pl. 9 b.