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Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Italian, Deruta, circa 1500-1520
Maiolica deep dish
Auction Closed
July 5, 02:27 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Italian, Deruta, circa 1500-1520
Maiolica deep dish
tin-glazed earthenware
painted in blue and golden lustre with the profile bust of a halberdier wearing an helmet and holding a halberd, the broad sloping rim with a continuous running stylized garland, separated from the central scene by a band of stylized laurel leaves, with non-metallic figure of a putto clinging to the helmet
diameter: 41.4cm., 16 1/3in.
Perhaps Alexander Barker (circa 1797-1873), London (part of his collection, according to Fortnum, came from Palazzo Albani in Rome);
Sir Francis Cook, Richmond, Doughty House (1817-1901) (maiolica bought in block from Alexander Barker circa 1870);
By descent to his second child: Wyndham F. Cook (1860-1905), 8 Cadogan Square;
By descent to his second child: Humphrey W. Cook (1893-1978), London (Catalogue of an important collection of objects of art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the property of Humprey W. Cook, Esq., and removed from 8 Cadogan Square, S. W., being a portion of the celebrated collection formed by the late Sir Francis Cook, Bart., London, Christie’s, 7 July 1925, n° 10, repr.);
Fernand Adda (1890- 1965), (Collection d’un grand amateur, Paris, 29 november-3 december 1965, n°526, repr.);
Cyril Humphris, London, until 1969;
Italian private collection;
Pandolfini Casa d'Asta, Florence, 28 October 2014, lot 19
Sir Francis Cook, Richmond, Doughty House (1817-1901) (maiolica bought in block from Alexander Barker circa 1870);
By descent to his second child: Wyndham F. Cook (1860-1905), 8 Cadogan Square;
By descent to his second child: Humphrey W. Cook (1893-1978), London (Catalogue of an important collection of objects of art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the property of Humprey W. Cook, Esq., and removed from 8 Cadogan Square, S. W., being a portion of the celebrated collection formed by the late Sir Francis Cook, Bart., London, Christie’s, 7 July 1925, n° 10, repr.);
Fernand Adda (1890- 1965), (Collection d’un grand amateur, Paris, 29 november-3 december 1965, n°526, repr.);
Cyril Humphris, London, until 1969;
Italian private collection;
Pandolfini Casa d'Asta, Florence, 28 October 2014, lot 19
Rackham, Catalogue of the Art Collection, 8 Cadogan Square. Vol.1. Italian Majolica and other Pottery [catalogue of the Wyndham F. Cook collection], London, 1903, p. 8, n.° 39 (wrongly attributed to Gubbio);
B. Rackham, Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica. Illustrated Catalogue of a Private Collection [ catalogue of the Adda Collection], London, Faber and Faber, 1959, n°346, pl. 157A (repr.);
G. Schurr, ‘’Continental Dispatch’’, in The Connoisseur, October 1966, vol. 163, n° 656, p. 109 (repr.);
Connaissance des Arts, 1967, p. 43 (advertising insert for the Cyril Humphris’ exhibition;
69 pieces of Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica from the Adda Collection, London, Cyril Humphris, 1-18 June 1967, n° 40.
B. Rackham, Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica. Illustrated Catalogue of a Private Collection [ catalogue of the Adda Collection], London, Faber and Faber, 1959, n°346, pl. 157A (repr.);
G. Schurr, ‘’Continental Dispatch’’, in The Connoisseur, October 1966, vol. 163, n° 656, p. 109 (repr.);
Connaissance des Arts, 1967, p. 43 (advertising insert for the Cyril Humphris’ exhibition;
69 pieces of Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica from the Adda Collection, London, Cyril Humphris, 1-18 June 1967, n° 40.
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