The Manny Davidson Collection: A Life in Treasures and Benevolence - Online Sale

Italian, Faenza, circa 1570

A Crespina with Cupid

No reserve

No Reserves

Lot Closed

November 7, 10:17 AM GMT

Estimate

2,500 - 3,500 EUR

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Description

in the centre Cupid holding a laurel branch, a symbol of the victory of love, within radiating fluted panels of acanthus alternately reserved on a blue or ochre ground reserve on the rim

Marked on the back with a blue sign probably intended as a letter “S”

Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

26 cm. diameter, 10¼in.

Christie's London, 25 February 1991, lot 42;

Rainer Zietz Ltd., London, 2010;

Where acquired.

RELATED LITERATURE

D. Thornton and T. Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London 2009, no. 100, p.156;

C. Ravanelli Guidotti, Thesaurus di opere della tradizione di Faenza, Faenza, 1998, no. 93, pp. 376-377.

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