Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 89
A rare and early Faenza maiolica tondino, dated 1520
2 July 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£15,000 - £20,000
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A rare and early Faenza maiolica tondino, dated 1520
Decorated in berettino with scrollwork grotesques around a central polychrome scene of a bearded man facing dexter, holding a scroll of paper with gothic letters, dated '1520' on the reverse between two concentric lines on the bowl, diam. cm 26 (restored section to the rim)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Italian Private Collection
A similar dish with slightly later date and a female portrait is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv.no. 53.225.80).
