Live Auction 10397Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
AN URBINO MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED BOWL
Lot 16 THE COLLECTION OF HERMAN BAER (LOTS 16-18)

AN URBINO MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED BOWL

CIRCA 1580-1600, PERHAPS PATANAZZI WORKSHOP

Closed3 June 2015

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GBP 1,000

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AN URBINO MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED BOWL
CIRCA 1580-1600, PERHAPS PATANAZZI WORKSHOP
The interior painted with a woman seated with a child within a draped interior, the border and exterior with bands of grotteschi, masks, birds, vases and bouquets, within yellow and ochre hatched borders (section of rim and one handle cracked and restored, associated hairline cracking)
8 in. (20.3 cm.) wide

Specialist note

This bowl may have been part of an 'accouchement' set, used to serve broth to women after childbirth, see Wendy M. Watson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, The Howard I. and Janet H. Stein Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2001, pp. 138-140 for a similar example decorated with scenes of childbirth. An armorial example attributed to the Patanazzi workshop was sold in these Rooms on 22 April 2008, lot 38.