SECOND QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY

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A DERUTA MAIOLICA ISTORIATO GOLD-LUSTRE CHARGER
SECOND QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY
Painted in blue and enriched in gold-lustre with a scantily draped bearded figure, rending the jaws of a lion in a landscape, the broad a quatieri border with panels of scale-pattern alternating with scrolling foliage (hairline crack from 8 o'clock running through centre to well at 2 o'clock, minor chipping to rims, some slight crazing and minor flaking to enamel)
15 5/8 in. (39.6 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Partial paper label attached to the reverse, perhaps for the Imbert Collection

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Lot Essay

The subject is traditionally described as Hercules slaying the Nemean Lion, but it could also depict Samson and the Lion. For a similar dish with the subject reversed (suggesting the subject was derived from a print source), see Bernard Rackham, Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica, Illustrated Catalogue of a Private Collection (London, 1959), pl. 156A, no. 356. The subject's popularity is discussed by Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, a Catalogue of the British Museum Collection (London, 2009), Vol. II, pp. 493-495.

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