Lot 5
ITALIAN MAIOLICA JAR
VENICE, CIRCA 1565, PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF DOMENEGO DA VENEZIA
Auction: 26 June 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
the ovoid body with a cylindrical tapering neck and flat unglazed base, painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, purple, black and white, an oval panel enriched with scrolls and painted with a Franciscan with a halo and holding a book in one hand and an image of the head of the sun in the other with characteristic white halo delineated by radiating orange streaks on a yellow ground, the panel on a dark blue ground incised with curved strokes and enriched with foliage and flower heads
Dimensions
26.5cm diam, 33.4cm 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 similar shaped Venetian jar in the Louvre collections see J. Giacomotti, Les majoliques des Musées nationaux, Paris 1974, cat.1230, p.415. For similar distinctive Venetian strap work cartouches, see J. Poole, Italian Maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum,cats.448-9, p.418 Cambridge, Cambridge, 1995