Fine European Ceramics & Glass
Catalog Information: 145 lots with images
Date: 2005
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 1: f - A GUBBIO LUSTRED MAIOLICA NUPTIAL TAZZA CIRCA 1530-40
moulded in relief with a wide border of acanthus leaves and fruit enclosing a central raised panel with clasped hands below a pierced heart and above flames,all picked out in ruby and gold lustre and painted in blue, the ribbed reverse painted with s [...more]
Lot 2: f - A RARE AND EARLY FAENZA MAIOLICA ABARELLO CIRCA 1480
the slightly waisted form painted in copper-green, blue, yellow and manganese with overlapping peacock feathers between blue and green line borders, the shoulder with a blue continuous foliate borderPROVENANCEAlessandro Imbert Collection, Rome;Guy G. [...more]
Lot 3: f - AN EARLY FAENZA MAIOLICA 'FAMIGLIA GOTICA' TWO-HANDLED ALBARELLO CIRCA 1470-80
painted in dark-blue, ochre and copper-green, either side with a panel containing two sunflowers in opposite corners, issuing from two diagonally placed leaves in the centre and blue tendrils, flanked by blue scroll borders, the shoulder with alterna [...more]
Lot 4: f - A RARE URBINO MAIOLICA ARMORIAL TONDO CIRCA 1523-1540
Workshop of Guido Durantino, finely painted in colours highlighted in white with the story of Apollo and Daphne, the nymph fleeing from Apollo, his right arm outstretched, she sprouting tree roots from her arms and feet, her father, the river God Pen [...more]
Lot 5: f - A RARE URBINO MAIOLICA ARMORIAL TONDO CIRCA 1523-40
Workshop of Guido Durantino, finely painted with Polyphemus and Galatea, a reclining youth, perhaps Acis, seated on a rock playing a syrinx, the pipes of Pan, Galatea standing watching from beside a rock nearby, in a moonlit scene, the yellow and ter [...more]
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