AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER
CIRCA 1528-32, ALMOST CERTAINLY BY 'THE PAINTER OF THE APOLLO BASIN', PROBABLY URBINO
AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER CIRCA 1528-32, ALMOST CERTAINLY BY 'THE PAINTER OF THE APOLLO BASIN', PROBABLY URBINO Painted with the birth of St. John the Baptist in a Renaissance setting, the scene in a large vaulted chamber, St. Elizabeth reclining on a canopied bed, a woman helping her and other female attendants nearby, a woman suckling a baby to the right by a table laid with plates of food and a salt, a servant carrying a ewer and a bottle, a terrier dog before them, a group of women bathing St. John on the left before a servant carrying a cot and another drying clothes by a fire, with Christ appearing in a Venetian window above flanked by two angels, within a blue line and ochre band rim, the reverse inscribed in pletiS Sunt dieS ut pareret et peterint filium Suum primogenitum in blue within two concentric ochre bands (four cracks from rim to well, shorter crack from rim to border, slight rim chips, slight scratching to area around edge of well, very slight chipping to footrim) 15½ in. (39.3) cm. diam.
AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER
CIRCA 1528-32, ALMOST CERTAINLY BY 'THE PAINTER OF THE APOLLO BASIN', PROBABLY URBINO
AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ISTORIATO CHARGER CIRCA 1528-32, ALMOST CERTAINLY BY 'THE PAINTER OF THE APOLLO BASIN', PROBABLY URBINO Painted with the birth of St. John the Baptist in a Renaissance setting, the scene in a large vaulted chamber, St. Elizabeth reclining on a canopied bed, a woman helping her and other female attendants nearby, a woman suckling a baby to the right by a table laid with plates of food and a salt, a servant carrying a ewer and a bottle, a terrier dog before them, a group of women bathing St. John on the left before a servant carrying a cot and another drying clothes by a fire, with Christ appearing in a Venetian window above flanked by two angels, within a blue line and ochre band rim, the reverse inscribed in pletiS Sunt dieS ut pareret et peterint filium Suum primogenitum in blue within two concentric ochre bands (four cracks from rim to well, shorter crack from rim to border, slight rim chips, slight scratching to area around edge of well, very slight chipping to footrim) 15½ in. (39.3) cm. diam.
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