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URBINO Round dish with a slightly hollow basin (tondino) in …
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URBINO Round dish with a slightly hollow basin (tondino) in …
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Lot no. 29
URBINO
Round dish with a slightly hollow basin (tondino) in majolica, with polychrome decoration in the centre of a love, a flame in the hand, in a medallion on a yellow background surrounded by a bianco sopra bianco garland. The wing is adorned with a scene from the Annunciation (?); to the left an angel with his finger raised to the heavens and to the right a woman standing three-quarter facing him. Paving in the foreground, architecture and drapery. Yellow border.
16th century
Diam. 23.5 cm
Restoration to the rim, a hair on the reverse, chips.
Provenance: Collections of Raoul Heilbronner, Maurice Stora, Jacqueline Stora and by descent
Note: A tondino a istoriato "the death of Achilles" with the same very special paving in the foreground is reproduced in Greta Kaucher's book, Le peintre du Marsyas de Milan. La majolique historiée à Urbino en 1530, Ed. Feu et talent, Paris, 2024, p. 58 fig.36 & p. 212 fig. 104.
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