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拍品专文
A plate in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, is decorated with very similar putti at play, one riding in a cart(1). The New York putti are in a similar pose to the present lot, but reversed, suggesting that a print or a design may have inspired the decoration. A group of pieces similarly decorated with putti with trident marks along a small circle(2), and another group, to which the present lot belongs, do not have a mark on the reverse. It is thought that that pieces of this type were all made at Faenza. A fragment which was excavated at Faenza in the 19th century, similarly decorated with putti within a blue-ground border with grotesques, is dated 1521(3).
1. See Timothy Wilson, Maiolica, Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2016, pp. 146-147, no. 43.
2. Wilson, ibid., p. 146, and note 3. This group includes the plate with a single putto illustrated by Tjark Hausmann, Fioritura, Blütezeiten der Majolika Eine Berliner Sammlung, Berlin, 2002, no. 39.
3. This was published by Federigo Argnani in 1898, see Carmen Ravanelli Guidotti, ‘Thesaurus di opera della tradizione di Faenza nelle raccolte del Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza’, in Faenza, 1998, p. 287, fig. 10.
1. See Timothy Wilson, Maiolica, Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2016, pp. 146-147, no. 43.
2. Wilson, ibid., p. 146, and note 3. This group includes the plate with a single putto illustrated by Tjark Hausmann, Fioritura, Blütezeiten der Majolika Eine Berliner Sammlung, Berlin, 2002, no. 39.
3. This was published by Federigo Argnani in 1898, see Carmen Ravanelli Guidotti, ‘Thesaurus di opera della tradizione di Faenza nelle raccolte del Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza’, in Faenza, 1998, p. 287, fig. 10.