Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 93
A pair of Faeza maiolica vases or bombole, circa 1550
2 July 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£6,000 - £8,000
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A pair of Faeza maiolica vases or bombole, circa 1550
Decorated with two central circular portraits of soldiers with strap titles 'Anibale' and 'Camilo', placed against a yellow ground and surrounded by bands of Gothic script labels reading 'Ell. De Forbis:' (sic) and 'Ell. Ex Invenzione Nostra' respectively, the horizontally divided naturalistic scrollwork in alternating blue and ocher panels continuing throughout, 19cm high, (both cracked around the centre) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Italian Private Collection
For a comparable dated albarello in the Museo di Faenza see: T. Wilson, Le maioliche rinascimentali nelle collezioni della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia (2006), cat.no. 31, p.92. Here the author argues that, contrary to previous interpretation of the written date as 1530, the dating should be read as '1550', in keeping with the use of different mixed ground colours which does not occur much earlier. This then dates the current objects and a relatively homogenous group of albarelli and bombole with similar decoration, of which other examples are in the Museo Internazionale della Ceramica di Faenza (as published by Ravanelli Guidotti (1998), cat.no.99.).
