Lot 10
ITALIAN MAIOLICA JAR
VENICE, CIRCA 1565, PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF DOMENEGO DA VENEZIA
Auction: 26 June 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
the globular body with a short narrow neck and flat unglazed base, painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, purple, black and white, the images of an old bearded man in profile and on the reverse a three quarter bust of a young woman her hair tied in a ribbon, wearing a pearl earring and a ruff looking to the left, both within two plain panels with characteristic halos of yellow made by radiating orange streaks, the panels reserved on a dark blue ground enriched with leaves (?) flowers and fruit and incised with short curved strokes, narrow blue and yellow banding on the base and neck
Dimensions
27.5cm diam, 29cm high
Footnote
Provenance:
Property of a Gentleman of Title
In the collection of the family of the present owners since the late 19th / early 20th century. Entries in the family archives suggest that maiolica was acquired between 1894 and 1916 from three different sources: from G. Donaldson in 1894 (with two items bought from the Spitzer Collection) in 1896 and in 1897; from H.A. Peto in 1899 and from S.M. Crossley in 1908 and in November 1916.
Note:
For a very similar and same sized Venetian jar with a profile of an old man and a young woman see, Timothy Wilson and Elisa Paola Sani, Le maioliche rinascimentali nelle collezioni della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia, cat. 78, p.236,Perugia 2006