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AN UMBRIAN MAIOLICA GOLD AND RUBY-LUSTRE FOOTED DISH
Lot 274

AN UMBRIAN MAIOLICA GOLD AND RUBY-LUSTRE FOOTED DISH

CIRCA 1510-20, DERUTA OR GUBBIO

Closed17 April 2013

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AN UMBRIAN MAIOLICA GOLD AND RUBY-LUSTRE FOOTED DISH
CIRCA 1510-20, DERUTA OR GUBBIO
The central well, painted with a bust-length portrait of a woman to the right, wearing a ruby and gold robe and flanked by ruby flowers and gold foliage, the blue-ground border reserved with interlocking scrolls and stylised scrolling foliage enriched in red and gold lustre, the reverse with concentric ruby bands, chipping and losses to foot, faint glaze crack running around border, some chipping to rim and minor glaze flaking to well
9 1/8 in. (23.1 cm.) diameter

Sir Alfred Beit, Bt., MP. Collection; Sotheby's sale, London, 16 October 1942, lot 59.
Ferdinand Adda Collection; sale Palais Galliera, Paris (sold anonymously as a 'Collection d'un grand amateur'), 29 November - 30th December 1965, lot 597.

Specialist note

Inventory nos. 802 and 56. in red enamel to the reverse.

Versions of this portrait appear on dishes attributed to Deruta in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, see Julia E. Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridge, 1995, pp. 168-169, no. 238 and 239. Poole suggests that the flowers, perhaps carnations or pinks, were symbols of love and such dishes may have been betrothal or wedding gifts. Similar border designs attributed to Gubbio are illustrated by Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, pp. 212-213, nos. 682 and 686.