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拍品专文
The identity of the patron or recipient of this tondino is currently unidentified, but the arms are probably for the Altacleri family of Verona. The black galero flanked by six tassels on each side probably denotes that he was a Protonotary Apostolic, an Auditor of the Rota or he may have been a bishop(1).
Another tondino bearing the same arms and a similar border was formerly in the Fernand Adda collection(2), and another is in the Louvre(3), suggesting that the three dishes may once have formed part of an armorial set. A further dish, with what appears to be the same arms, but with different coloring, is also in the Musée du Louvre(4). This dish is dated 1536, but the grotesques on the border are different, the arms lack the Cardinal’s galero and the shield is flanked by M. G. If the arms are related, then the recipient must have been a different member of the family.
1. See Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 2009, Vol. I, p. 318 for a plate with the black galero and six tassels, and where the authors note that there ‘is some uncertainty about the rights of senior prelates at this period to use various types and colors of prelatial hat’.
2. See Bernard Rackham, Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica, Illustrated Catalogue of a Private Collection, London, 1959, no. 283. It was subsequently sold by Palais Galliera, Rheims and Rheims, Paris, 29 November - 3 December 1965, lot 543.
3. Jeanne Giacomotti, Les majoliques des Musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, p. 83, no. 330.
4. Jeanne Giacomotti, ibid., Paris, 1974, pp. 76-77, no. 300.
Another tondino bearing the same arms and a similar border was formerly in the Fernand Adda collection(2), and another is in the Louvre(3), suggesting that the three dishes may once have formed part of an armorial set. A further dish, with what appears to be the same arms, but with different coloring, is also in the Musée du Louvre(4). This dish is dated 1536, but the grotesques on the border are different, the arms lack the Cardinal’s galero and the shield is flanked by M. G. If the arms are related, then the recipient must have been a different member of the family.
1. See Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 2009, Vol. I, p. 318 for a plate with the black galero and six tassels, and where the authors note that there ‘is some uncertainty about the rights of senior prelates at this period to use various types and colors of prelatial hat’.
2. See Bernard Rackham, Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica, Illustrated Catalogue of a Private Collection, London, 1959, no. 283. It was subsequently sold by Palais Galliera, Rheims and Rheims, Paris, 29 November - 3 December 1965, lot 543.
3. Jeanne Giacomotti, Les majoliques des Musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, p. 83, no. 330.
4. Jeanne Giacomotti, ibid., Paris, 1974, pp. 76-77, no. 300.