Plat rond polylobé en majolique de Faenza, circa 1740 ...
Property from an Italian Private Collection
Plat rond polylobé en majolique de Faenza, circa 1740
A Faenza maiolica lobed circular dish, circa 1740
The centre painted with a circular landscape vignette depicting a lady offering another a dish, a peacock on a tree overhead, within a blue line border enclosed by small bunches of fruit, the rim with ochre foliate and blue double-line borders, 27.3cm across (short tight haircrack to rim, restored rim chip)
Provenance
Private collection, Modena
Another moulded dish of the same form with similar decorationis published by G. Liverani, Maioliche settecentesche dell'Emilia Romagna (1981), pl. 17.
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Property from an Italian Private Collection
Plat rond polylobé en majolique de Faenza, circa 1740
A Faenza maiolica lobed circular dish, circa 1740
The centre painted with a circular landscape vignette depicting a lady offering another a dish, a peacock on a tree overhead, within a blue line border enclosed by small bunches of fruit, the rim with ochre foliate and blue double-line borders, 27.3cm across (short tight haircrack to rim, restored rim chip)
Provenance
Private collection, Modena
Another moulded dish of the same form with similar decorationis published by G. Liverani, Maioliche settecentesche dell'Emilia Romagna (1981), pl. 17.