European Ceramics, Glass, Silver, Vertu and Portrait Miniatures
Catalog Information: 578 lots | 467 with images
Date: 2001
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 1: An Italian maiolica fragment of a 'Bella Donna' dish
An Italian maiolica fragment of a 'Bella Donna' dishcirca 1530probably Castel Durante or Urbino, painted with the bust of a woman three-quarters to left, wearing a white headdress and white ruffled blouse embroidered in blue and tied about the neck w [...more]
Lot 2: A Deruta rectangular votive plaque
A Deruta rectangular votive plaquelate 16th/early 17th centurybrightly painted with the Madonna and Child seated on a throne, flanked by two female saints each holding attributes, within a raised integral frame painted with a stiff-leaf border18 cm. [...more]
Lot 3: Two Deruta maiolica salts
Two Deruta maiolica salts17th centuryof bombe square section on four paw feet and applied with winged female busts at the corners, painted with grotesques between yellow and ochre borders, the wells with Amor enclosed by panels of scrolling foliage, [...more]
Lot 4: A Venice maiolica berretino-ground drug jar
A Venice maiolica berretino-ground drug jarsecond half 16th centuryof bottle form, named for aq.d.mortella. within a scroll label and against a ground of blue scrolling foliage between cross borders20 cm., 7 7/8 in., minor rim chip and slight flaking [...more]
Lot 5: An Italian maiolica wet drug jar
An Italian maiolica wet drug jarprobably Venice, second half 16th centurypainted in berretino and inscribed consa.d.betonca on a ribbon above an armorial badge of a castellated tower against an ochre badge enclosed by blue and yellow scrolls, the dou [...more]
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