Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 5
A Montelupo maiolica charger, early 17th century
14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A Montelupo maiolica charger, early 17th century
Decorated in ochre, brown, green, blue and yellow with radiating geometric bands, the rim edged in ochre, 33.2cm diam. (rim chip, hair crack to rim)
Footnotes
A dish with a similar geometric border is in the British Museum, London; illustrated in D. Thornton/T. Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, A catalogue of the British Museum collection, Vol. I (2009), p.204, no.129. Another is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; see Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica (1940/1977), pl.56, no.354.
