Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume II : Kunstkammer
Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume II : Kunstkammer
A pair of Italian maiolica large two-handled ovoid istoriato vases, circa 1670, Urbania
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October 12, 05:41 PM GMT
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15,000 - 20,000 EUR
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A pair of Italian maiolica large two-handled ovoid istoriato vases, circa 1670, Urbania
with caryatid and serpent handles, each painted to one side in polychrome, to the other in shades of blue with scenes titled to the foot, with the Adoration of the Shepherds (GLORIA IN EXCE), The Resurrection (MIAM v RESVRG), The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew (DIVI BARTHOLO/MÆI MARTVRIVM) and The Deposition (MORTEM NOSTRA/MORIENDO DESTRV)
height 32 in.; 81 cm.
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Paire de vases en majolique "a istoriato", Italie, vers 1670
ovoïdes à deux anses
height 32 in.; 81 cm.
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Christie's London, 30 September 2014, lot 240.
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Christie's Londres, 30 septembre 2014, lot 240.
The present vases are closely related in form and decorative scheme to a series of serpent handled vases by the Urbanian maiolica painter Ippolito Rombaldoni and his workshop. This includes a signed and dated vase from 1678 now in the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan, see C. Fiocco & G. Gherardi, Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, 2004, no. 589. Another signed and dated example in the Museo Internazionale Della Ceramica, Faenza illustrated by G. Liverane, Selezione Delle Opere, 1963, pp. 37-8, (MICF inv. 12983). Two further unsigned examples are in the MICF, inv. 12891 and 12892.
See also D. Thornton & T. Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, a Catalogue of the British Museum, London, 2009, Vol. II, p. 589, the authors make refence to Corrado Leonardi's theory that some of these vases, all formerly in the Barberini Collection, Rome, may had been commissioned by Conte Federico Ubaldini of Urbania as a gift to Pope Urban VIII, whose birthplace of Castel Durante had been renamed Urbania at his election to the papacy in 1635.
A related pair of vases are in the collection at Burghley House, Lincolnshire, with scenes after Antonio Tempesta, Gerusalemme Liberata, see G. Lang, et al., European Ceramics at Burghley House, 1991, pp. 5-6, no. 4 a-b. Further signed pieces include a plaque in the British Museum, another in Urbania and a dish in the Louvre (see Thornton & Wilson, ibid., pp. 589-592). The connection between Urbania and Rome is further discussed by Wilson in relation to a pair of models of crowned eagles dated 1671, see T. Wilson, Maiolica Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2016, pp. 330-1, no. 115 A-B.