Italian, Castel Durante or Urbino, dated 153[?]

Shallow Bowl

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February 2, 05:19 PM GTNN

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from a Swiss Private collects ion

Italian, Castel Durante or Urbino, dated 153[?]

Shallow Bowl

dated 153[?] in the embroidery on her collar, with white banderole inscribed CORNELIA B (for Cornelia Bella) behind her, on a low foot, the reverse with three labels: an oval label printed in blue “collects ION C. DAMIRON / N°” with the handwritten number ‘40’; another corresponds to the lot from the Damiron sale in 1938 with the number ‘55’ printed; and a label from the Guerlain collects ion bearing the handwritten number ‘370’. Inscription under the foot: ‘5830 I.’ (?).

tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

diameter: 8 ½ in.; 21.5 cm.

Count James-Alexandre de Pourtalès, known as Pourtalès-Gorgier (1776-1855) from circa 1841–1855;

Thence by descent to his children between 1855–1865;

Count James-Alexandre de Pourtalès' posthumous sale, Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité, Antiques, du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance qui composent les collects ions de feu M. le comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier et dont la vent aura lien en son hôtel, rue Tronchet, no. 7, Paris, 6 February 1865 and the following days, lot 1703 (as Urbino);

Where acquired by Georges Berger (1834-1910), president of the Society of Friends of the Louvre and the Central Union of decorative Art from 1861 to at least 1885, Paris;

Possibly thence by descent to his son, Herman-Georges Berger (1875-1924);

Charles Damiron (1868-1969);

Catalogue of the very choice collects ion of old Majolica and hispano-moresque Ware, Replica Shoes 's London, 16 June 1938, lot 55;

Where acquired by Maurice Stora (1879-1950) or his brother Raphael Stora (1887-1963), 32 bis boulevard Haussmann, Paris;

Jean-Pierre Guerlain (1905-1991);

Thence by inheritance to his wife, Christiane Guerlain, née Lesieur (1920-2016);

Her posthumous sale, collects ions de majoliques provenant de la succession de Madame Jean-Pierre Guerlain art lover and distinguished patron, Beaussant - Lefèvre & Associés, Paris, 31 January 2017, lot 18;

Where acquired by the present collects or.

Paris, Palais de la Présidence du Corps Législatif, Exposition en faveur de l'oeuvre des alsaciens et lorrains demeurés française, 23 April 1874 (loaned by Georges Berger).

J. Dubois, Description des objets d'art du Moyen Age, de la Renaissance et modernes faisant partie des collects ions de M. Le comte de Pourtalès-Gorgie, Paris 1842, p. 46, no. 241;

"Pourtalès sale" in La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 96, 19 March 1865, p. 98, cited;

A. Jacquemart, "Exposition en faveur de l'oeuvre des alsaciens et lorrains demeurés français" in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1874, p. 128, cited;

A. Maze-Sencier, Le Livre des collects ionneurs, Paris 1885, p. 456, cited;

B. Rackham, "The Damiron collects ion of Italian Maiolica" in Apollo, vol. 26, United Kingdom 1937, p. 257, cited;

The Connoisseur, vol. 101, 1938, p. 342, illus.;

G. Ballardini, Corpus della maiolica Italiana. I. Le maioliche datate fino al 1530. II. Le maioliche datate dal 1531 al 1535, vol. II, Rome 1933, no. 5, plate II, illus.;

J. Chompret, Répertoise de la Majolique italienne, Paris 1949, p. 121, fig. 952, illus.;

T. Hausmann, Majolika. Spanische and Italienische Keramik vom 14. bis zun 18. Jahrhundert (Kataloge des Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, Band VI), Berlin 1972, p. 244, cited.

J. Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux (Musées du Louvre et de Cluny, Musée national de céramique à Sèvres, Musée Adrien-Dubouché à Limoges), Paris 1974, p. 245, cited.