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Maker: Jacopo di Stefano di Filippo (Attributed to)
Renaissance, maiolica bowl with broad rim, painted in blue with, in the middle, a spotted duck.
Cream earthenware, thinly tin-glazed overall; three spur marks in the well. Painted in blue.
Shape approximately 58, thickly potted, and heavy for its size. Circular with wide, sloping rim and deep well.
In the middle, a spotted duck with a long beak swims to the left within a cusped lozenge-shaped frame surrounded by foliate scrolls. The rim is decorated alla porcellana with four pairs of lozenges filled with dots, separated by four symmetrical arrangements of foliate scrolls. The back is inscribed in the middle in blue, `J o: chafagguolo', and on the rim and sides of the well there are four foliated spirals.
History note: Charles Damiron; Sotheby's, 16 June 1938, Catalogue of the very choice collection of old Italian majolica and Hispano-Moresque ware, the property of Monsieur Damiron, 8 rue Vaubecour, Lyons, lot 74; F.D. Lycett Green; Sotheby's, 14 October 1960, Catalogue of Italian maiolica, works of art, etc. including the property of . . . the late F.D. Lycett Green, Esq., lot 10.
Purchased with the Leverton Harris Fund.
Diameter: 24.2 cm
Height: 4.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1960-10-13) by Sotheby's
16th Century
Circa
1510
CE
-
1525
CE
This is one of nine recorded plates of tondino form decorated 'alla porcellana' in blue and inscribed 'Jo (o raised) chafagguolo' on the back. With one exception all have borders of lozenges and foliated arabesques, and, on the back, three or four foliated coiling stems surrounding the inscription on the base. None of the dishes is dated but their style indicates that they were made during the first quarter of the sixteenth century. The first two letters of the inscription are probably a short form of Jacopo, and resemble the writing on a plate in the Victoria and Albert Museum decorated with an equestrian 'Judith with the Head of Holofernes' on the front, and signed 'Japo' (o raised) in chaffaguolo' on the reverse.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue)
Tin-glazing : Cream earthenware, thinly tin-glazed overall; three spur marks in the well. Painted in blue.
Accession number: C.4-1960
Primary reference Number: 48389
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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