Property from a Swiss Private Collection, Lots 630–637 formerly in the Rothschild Collection
Follower of Bernard Palissy, After a design by Rosso Fiorentino, French, Probably Paris or Fontainebleau, circa 1600-50
Large Oval Dish with an Allegory of Fertility
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February 7, 08:37 PM GMT
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6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Property from a Swiss Private Collection, Lots 630–637 formerly in the Rothschild Collection
Follower of Bernard Palissy, After a design by Rosso Fiorentino
French, Probably Paris or Fontainebleau, circa 1600-50
Large Oval Dish with an Allegory of Fertility
the center decorated in relief with an allegory of Fertility, after a fresco by Rosso Fiorentino, with a reclining nude woman and five children against a background of draperies and architectural details, a garden to the left, the rim decorated with draped, grinning masks alternating with fruit-filled urns and oval and circular reserves; the reverse with faux marbled glaze
glazed earthenware
width: 19 ½ in.; 49.5 cm
Several examples of this model are known including four dishes in the Musée du Louvre, Paris and another in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
RELATED LITERATURE
Alfred Tainturier, Les terres émaillées de Bernard Palissy inventeur des rustiques figulines, Paris, 1863, p. 130, no. 212 ;
F. Barbe, F. Coulon, J. Denis-Dupuis, 'Le collectionnisme des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Les céramiques post-palisséennes de provenance ancienne dans les collections françaises' in Bernard Palissy: nouveaux regards sur la céramique française aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Technè, 47, 2019, pp. 128-143.