Ghislaine Howard
Sale Coordinator
Lot 8
An Albisola maiolica circular dish, Grosso workshop, second half 17th century
7 December 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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Sophie von der Goltz
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
An Albisola maiolica circular dish, Grosso workshop, second half 17th century
Painted in blue with a scene depicting the Rape of Europa in the well and a band of alternating floral and foliate motifs, the reverse with a striped band reserved with stylised floral motifs above the footrim, 45cm diam., lantern mark in blue (haircrack to rim)
Footnotes
A dish with a very similar border painted with a scene depicting the Triumph of Bacchus, attributed to the Grosso workshop in Albisola, is in the Museo civico in Genova (published F. Marzinot, Ceramica e ceramisti die Liguria (1979), ill. 259).
