Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

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36ο. Dish with Three Saints (coppa)

Faenza, circa 1535

By Baldassare Manara

Tin-glazed earthenware

Obverse painted with a shield containing a

holy cross flanked by Μ and C below annu­

lets; inscribed on the scroll PETRE DILIGIS

ME and signed on the reverse, Baldasara

Manara fa [e] η [tino] or Baldasara Manara

fa[e]n[za].

Height: iK in. (3.8 cm);

Diameter: 8%> in. (21.5 cm)

Accession number 84 .DE.107

PROVENANCE

Stora, Paris; Charles Damiron, Lyons (sold,

Sotheby's, London, June 16,1938, lot 20);

Paul Damiron (sold, Sotheby's, London,

November 22,1983, lot 209); [Rainer Zietz,

Ltd., London].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Charles Damiron, Majoliques italiennes

(privately printed, 1944), no. 79; Joseph

Chompret, Repertoire de h majolique itali-

enne, vol. 1 (Paris, 1949), p. 77; illus. p. 2,

fig. 500; Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby's

(London, 1983-1984), p. 290; "Acquisitions/

1984," GettyMusJii (1985), no. 167, p. 242,

illus.; Hess, Maiolica, no. 19, pp. 61-63.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Acquisitions/1984," GettyMUS/13 (1985),

no. 168, p. 242, illus.; Hess, Maiolica, no. 27,

pp. 88-90.

361

361. Molded Dish with an Allegory of Love
     (crespina)
     Faenza, circa 1535
     Tin-glazed earthenware
     Height: x^7 /s in. (7.3 cm);
     Diameter: 11 in. (28 cm)
     Accession number 84.DE. 114

PROVENANCE

Prince Thibaut d'Orlιans, Paris (sold,

Sotheby's, London, February 5,1974,

lot 30); [Rainer Zietz, Ltd., London].

362

362. Jug with Berettino Ground (boccale)
     Faenza, 1536
     Tin-glazed earthenware
     Dated 1536 on each of four tablets under the
     medallions and marked Elixeo beside a
     bearded and turbaned old man.
     Height: 1 ft.I3/i6 in. (32.5 cm); Diameter (at
     lip): 5% in. (13.3 cm); Maximum Width:
     10 %. in. (26 cm)
     Accession number 84 .DE.115

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