Live Auction 16216A London Season: Works Of Art From A Private Collection in Eaton Square
AN URBINO DISTRICT MAIOLICA ISTORIATO LUSTRED FOOTED DISH (COPPA)
Lot 15

AN URBINO DISTRICT MAIOLICA ISTORIATO LUSTRED FOOTED DISH (COPPA)

CIRCA 1530-40, PROBABLY URBINO, PROBABLY LUSTRED AT GUBBIO IN THE WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO GIORGIO ANDREOLI

Closed21 November 2018

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AN URBINO DISTRICT MAIOLICA ISTORIATO LUSTRED FOOTED DISH (COPPA)
CIRCA 1530-40, PROBABLY URBINO, PROBABLY LUSTRED AT GUBBIO IN THE WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO GIORGIO ANDREOLI
Painted with an allegorical scene of an angel protecting a figure to safety, a crowned warrior on steps nearby, the reverse enriched in copper lustre
10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

The subject of this dish is uncertain. One possibility is that it depicts the liberation of St. Peter, who had been imprisoned by King Herod (possibly represented by the figure on the steps). St. Peter was rescued from the prison by an angel.

A dish in Cluny (Inv. 7570) with similar handling of the landscape and figures is illustrated by Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, p. 278, no. 882.