Live Auction 7821The Barratt Collection - from Crowe Hall, Bath
AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA DATED PLATE
Lot 109

AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA DATED PLATE

1588, PROBABLY PESARO

Closed16 December 2010

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GBP 4,000

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AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA DATED PLATE
1588, PROBABLY PESARO
The centre with Cupid with a bow and arrow on a yellow ground, the blue border with ochre martial trophies and a panel dated 1588, slight chipping and flaking
9 in. (23 cm.) diameter

Acquired from Alfred Spero, London, 3 February 1961.

Specialist note

For related examples see Paride Berardi, L'Antica Maiolica di Pesaro del. XIV al XVII Secolo, Florence, 1984, p. 313, fig. 110 and p. 315, fig. 114; for two fragments, similaly decorated and dated 1600 and 1602 see Riccardo Gresta, 'Ill Passaggio della Maiolica Pesarese dal Cinquecento al Seicento', Pesaro della Devoluzione all'Illuminismo, Vol. IV.2, 2009, p. 211, no. 24. Similar wares have also been attributed to nearby Mondaino, see Sergio Nepoti, Maioliche a Mondaino Fra XV e XVII secolo, 1997, p. 41, tav. XIII.