AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA DATED PLATE

1588, PROBABLY PESARO

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AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA DATED PLATE
1588, PROBABLY PESARO
The centre with Cupid with a bow and arrow on a yellow ground, the blue border with ochre martial trophies and a panel dated 1588, slight chipping and flaking
9 in. (23 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Acquired from Alfred Spero, London, 3 February 1961.

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Lot Essay

For related examples see Paride Berardi, L'Antica Maiolica di Pesaro del. XIV al XVII Secolo, Florence, 1984, p. 313, fig. 110 and p. 315, fig. 114; for two fragments, similaly decorated and dated 1600 and 1602 see Riccardo Gresta, 'Ill Passaggio della Maiolica Pesarese dal Cinquecento al Seicento', Pesaro della Devoluzione all'Illuminismo, Vol. IV.2, 2009, p. 211, no. 24. Similar wares have also been attributed to nearby Mondaino, see Sergio Nepoti, Maioliche a Mondaino Fra XV e XVII secolo, 1997, p. 41, tav. XIII.

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