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An Exceptional Trilobed Basin, Bacile Bronzo a Tre Angoli Decorated All Over with Grotesque Designs on a White Ground Around Four Medallions with Scened From the Quadrins Historiques da la Bible By Bernard Salomon, c. 1565-1575

Workshop of Orazio Fontana

Exhibited by Camille Leprince

Material Tin-glazed earthenware

Dimensions 47 x 45 x 5 cm

Place of Creation Urbino (Italy)

Status Vetted

About the Work

After

After a design commissioned by the Duke of Urbino from Taddeo or Federico Zuccaro

For the grotesque pattern, inspired by designs by Jacques Androuet I du Cerceau (1515-1585).

Similar model

A similar example of a slightly later date is in the collection of Franco Ercole (Italy). It is published in Timothy Wilson, The Golden Age of Italian Maiolica-Painting. Catalogue of a Private Collection, n.168 (attributed to the Fontana or Patanazzi workshop), 2018, Turin.

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Provenance

Collection Eugene Gutmann, 1912 - 1925
Collection Friedrich Bernhard Eugen “Fritz” Gutmann, 1925
Collection F. Mannheimer, vente Amsterdam, 14-21 octobre 1952, lot 469
Collection Veneziani
Christie’s Londres, British and Continental Ceramics sale, 12 juin 1995, lot 367
Italian private collection
Altomani and Sons, Milan
Camille Leprince, Paris (2024)