Bowl: C.196-1991

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown (Supposedly)

Entities

• Bowl
• shallow bowl

Categories

• Tin-glazed earthenware
• Maiolica

Description

Renaissance maiolica shallow bowl, painted in polychrome with, in the middle, jugate busts of a man and woman.

Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides, the reverse appearing pinkish-cream. Painted in dark blue, yellowish-green, dark yellow, and dark manganese.
Circular with a flat centre and shallow sides moulded with dimples.
In the middle, framed by concentric blue bands of different widths and one dark yellow band, are the jugate busts of a young man and woman with groups of three dark manganese dots in the background. On the sides, there are blue, yellow and white egg or leaf motifs with green in the spaces; round the rim, a narrow blue band and a wider yellow band decorated with blue points.

Notes

History note: Richard von Kaufmann; Berlin, Cassirer & Helbing, 4 December 1917, vol. III, Die Sammlung Richard von Kaufmann, III, lot 511 & pl. 84. Kurt Glogowski; Sotheby's, 8 June 1932, Catalogue of the well-known collection of important Italian majolica, also bronzes and statuary, velvets, textiles and embroideries, fine Oriental rugs, & c. the property of Herr Kurt Glogowski of Berlin, p. 9, lot 21; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.

Legal notes

H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

15th Century
16th Century
Circa 1490 CE - 1510 CE