2IO ITALIAN CERAMICS
365- Basin with Deucalion and Pyrrha
(bacile trilobato)
Urbino, circa 1565-1571
By Orazio Fontana or produced in his
workshop
Tin-glazed earthenware
Height: 2/2 in. (6.3 cm);
Diameter: 1 ft. 6% in. (46.3 cm)
Accession number 86.DE.539
PROVENANCE
Baron Adolphe de Rothschild, Paris,
between 1870 and 1890; Baron Maurice
de Rothschild, Paris, until 1916; [Duveen
Brothers, New York]; private collection,
Stuttgart; (sold, Reimann and Monats-
berger, Stuttgart, January 1986); [Alain
Moatti, Paris].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Antiquitδten-Zeitung 25 (1985), p. 611;
"Acquisitions/1986," GettyMusJ 15 (1987),
no. 114, p. 216, illus.; Hess, Maiolica, no. 34,
pp. 112-115, illus.; Handbook 1991, p. 206,
illus.- Pilgrim Flask (fiasca da pellegrino)
Florence, the Medici porcelain factory, circa
1575-1587
Soft-paste porcelain
Marked on the underside with the dome of
Santa Maria del Fiore accompanied by F; a
mark resembling 3 scratched under the glaze
and painted with blue glaze; on rim, three
hatch marks inscribed before glaze firing.
366Height: io^3 /s in. (26.4 cm); Diameter (at
lip): 1V16 in. (4 cm); Maximum Width:
y^7 /s in. (20 cm)
Accession number 86.DE.630
PROVENANCE
William Spence, Florence, until 1857; pur
chased by Alessandro Foresi, 1857; Giovanni
Freppa, Florence; Eugene Piot, Paris (sold,
Hotel des Commissaires-Priseurs, Paris,
March 19, i860, lot 82, to Baron Alphonse
de Rothschild, Paris); Baron Edouard de
Rothschild, Paris; Baron Guy and Baroness
Marie-Hιlιne de Rothschild, Paris.
EXHIBITIONS
Paris, Exposition retrospective du Trocadιro,
1878.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Albert Jacquemart, "La porcelaine des
Mιdicis," Gazette des beaux-arts 3 (Decem
ber 1859), p. 276; Albert Jacquemart and
Edmond Le Blant, Histoire artistique:
Industrielle et commerciale de la porcelaine
(Paris, 1862), p. 644, no. 5; Alessandro Foresi,
Sulleporcelhne medicee (Florence, 1869),
pp. 15ft., 29, reprint from Piovani Arlotto
(July 1859); Alfred Darcel, "Les faiences
francais et les porcelaines au Trocadιro,"
Gazette des beaux-arts 18 (November 1878),
p. 762; Baron Jean Charles Davillier, Les
Origines de la porcelaine en Europe (Paris,
1882), no. 29, pp. 39-41,114-115; Charles de
Grollier, Manuel de Vamateur de porcelaine
(Paris, 1914), no. 2309; Seymour de Ricci,
"La porcelaine des Medicis," Faenza, Museo
Internazionale delle Ceramiche: Lopera dun
decennio, ipo8~ipi8 (Faenza, 1918), p. 29,