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Lot 4
A Faenza maiolica charger, circa 1530Decorated in berretino and with polychrome colours, the cavetto with a portrait of Scipio against a blue ground, the rim with a band of stiff leaves and cross-hatched bands over an elaborate decoration scheme of intertwining knots and scrollwork elements, the reverse with a geometric pattern in two tone blue, 42cm diam. (restored)Footnotes:ProvenanceNicolier, Paris (paper label to the reverse);Charles Bourdet Collection, thence toCollection of Daniele Lasser, New York, NYSimilar armorial versions of Faenza dishes are in various museum collections around the world, including the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, which holds a dish with the arms of the Strozzi Ridolfi families.For pieces with similar decoration see Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des Musées Nationaux (1974), cat.no. 308-317. A similar piece in the Hamburg Museum for Applied Arts is illustrated by Jörg Rasmussen, Italienische Maiolika (1984), cat.no. 60. Another is illustrated by Timothy Wilson, Italian Maiolica of the Renaissance (1996), no. 53. The same author also illustrates a similar piece in Le maioliche rinascimentali nelle collezioni della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia (2006), cat.no. 23. Here the author notes that Ravanelli Guidotti, and before her Ballardini, recorded that this kind of 'berretino' or blue-on-blue decoration is already mentioned in a document in 1528 as 'gentilezze'.Another Faenza plate with a similar berretino decoration was sold in these rooms, 17 June 2015, lot 4This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com