A DERUTA MAIOLICA 'AMATORIA' STAND
Lot 286

A DERUTA MAIOLICA 'AMATORIA' STAND

CIRCA 1520-50

Closed17 April 2013

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GBP 4,000

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A DERUTA MAIOLICA 'AMATORIA' STAND
CIRCA 1520-50
With a domed central boss inscribed LABINA.BELLA. in blue within a banner reserved against ochre, yellow and green scrolls, the well with alternating panels of leaves, scrolling foliage, fruit and scale-pattern, the yellow-line rim with berried foliage, blue and green bands, the reverse with a band of blue hatched ornament, rim drilled at 12 o'clock, restuck glaze chip at reverse at 10 o'clock, minor chipping to rim and scratching to centre
11 7/8 in. (30 cm.) diam.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 2 July 1979, lot 17.
With H. Reichert, Munich, from whom it was acquired on 17 July 1979.

Specialist note

A similarly decorated and inscribed dish is illustrated by Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, p. 192, pl. 618.