MAIOLICA PLATE FROM THE CARDINAL FARNESE SERVICE
Castelli d'Abruzzo, ca. 1575.
"Alla turchina" painted on a blue ground in gold and heightened in white, with the Farnese coat of arms under a cardinal's hat.
D 23 cm.
Provenance: European private collection.
Items from a large service commissioned from the Castelli factory by the great art collector Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-89), "servitio da credenza di maiolica turchina miniata d'oro con arme del S.r cardinale Farnese" (Record in the inventories of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome from 1643 and 1653).
Cf. T. Wilson/E. Sani, Le maioliche rinascimentali nelle collezioni della Fondazione Casse di Risparmio di Perugia, 2007, II, No. 146.
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Castelli d'Abruzzo, ca. 1575.
"Alla turchina" painted on a blue ground in gold and heightened in white, with the Farnese coat of arms under a cardinal's hat.
D 23 cm.
Provenance: European private collection.
Items from a large service commissioned from the Castelli factory by the great art collector Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-89), "servitio da credenza di maiolica turchina miniata d'oro con arme del S.r cardinale Farnese" (Record in the inventories of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome from 1643 and 1653).
Cf. T. Wilson/E. Sani, Le maioliche rinascimentali nelle collezioni della Fondazione Casse di Risparmio di Perugia, 2007, II, No. 146.
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