Live Auction 10674The Collections of Principessa Ismene Chigi Della Rovere and A Noble Genoese Family
A CASTELLI MAIOLICA PIERCED ARMORIAL FOOTED DISH
Lot 155

A CASTELLI MAIOLICA PIERCED ARMORIAL FOOTED DISH

FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY

Closed4 February 2015

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GBP 3,500

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A CASTELLI MAIOLICA PIERCED ARMORIAL FOOTED DISH
FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY
The centre painted with a coat-of-arms and inscribed with initials '.G.' and '.R.', the border pierced with lozenges and ovals linked by simulated chain, below a cogwheel-pattern rim
12 in. (30.5 cm.) wide

Specialist note

For a pierced dish (catalogued as an alzata) of the same form and attributed to Castelli, see Vincenzo de Pompeis (Ed.), Maioliche di Castelli nella Collezione Acerbo in Loreto Aprution Pescara (2001, Pescara), p. 40, no. OA-46.