LOT DETAILS

Materials:

maiolica

Size Notes:

diameter

Description:

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Markings:

the reverse inscribed 1537 Quest 'e' l Pastor che mal miro 'l bell' volto/d'Helena Greco, e, quell famosso ratto Pel qual fu 'l mo(n)do sotto sopra volto/Fra(n) X.R.

Literature:

J.V.G. Mallett, Xanto: Pottery-Painter, Poet, Man of the Italian Renaissance, Exhibition Catalogue, The Wallace Collection, London, 25 January – 15 April 2007, p. 199, no. 318.

Provenance:

Octavius E. Coope, Esq.; Christie’s, London, 3 May 1910, lot 38. Acquired by the present owner in the 1970s and forgotten in storage from 1978 until September 2017.