The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma

The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma

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A massive Spanish faience bowl, Talavera, early 18th century

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Auction Closed

March 24, 08:41 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A massive Spanish faience bowl

Talavera, early 18th century


painted in typical palette with a picador and bull, the exterior painted with a frieze of hounds chasing a hare

50cm. diameter, 23cm. high

See the bowl in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (acc. no. 1279-1871) with a similar subject to the interior in the manner of Johannes Stradanus.