Montelupo Maiolica Dish; Together with a German Faience Dish

Description:

Montelupo Maiolica Dish
17th Century
Painted with a portrait of a woman. Diameter 13 inches (33 cm); Together with a German Faience Dish dated 1701, early 18th century, probably Zittau. Painted with berried plants, the center dated 1701. Diameter 12 3/4 inches (32.4 cm).

For a German faience plate with similar decoration and dated 1712 see Rackham, Bernard, Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1935, p. 365, acc. no.: C.2927-1928.

C Estates of WR Appleby and Elinor Appleby
Estimate $700-1,000

Montelupo dish with glazing imperfections, chips and losses to decoration, large chip at 5pm, scattered chips to rim, underside with restorations to rim at 9 - 2 o'clock, chip to foot; Saxon dish with crackling to glaze, chips to rim, 2 1/2" chip to rim of underside at 11 o'clock.

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