TWO URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CRESPINE

CIRCA 1540-60, PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF FRANCESCO DURANTINO

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TWO URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CRESPINE
CIRCA 1540-60, PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF FRANCESCO DURANTINO
Each of fluted form with domed centres, mounted in elaborate giltwood scrolling acanthus leaf frames, the first crespina painted with Vulcan forging Cupid's arrows beside attendants (chipping and losses to foot, hairline cracks to rim, minor rim chipping, some damages and repairs to frame), the other with the musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas or between Apollo and Pan with King Midas, the laurel-crowned Apollo standing holding his stringed viol beside the other crowned figure with a syrinx, with further attendant figures in a river landscape (chipping and losses to foot, restoration and associated retouching to half of rim, hairline cracking to rim, some flaking and repairs to frame)
Each dish approximately 9½ in. (24.1 cm.) diam.; the giltwood frames approximately 25 in. (64.8 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

For a dish decorated with Apollo and Marsyas in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, see Johanna Lessmann, Italienische Majolika, Katalog der Sammlung, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Brunswick, 1979, p. 193, no. 178: A dish with a similar subject was sold in these Rooms on 13 March 1989, lot 279 and another with a version of Vulcan at his forge was sold at Christie's New York on 29 September 1999, lot 10.

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