A French pottery 'Fecundity' Dish, after Palissy, Probably Paris or Fontainebleau, 17th Century
No reserve
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
moulded in low relief with the allegory of Fertility, after a fresco by Rosso Fiorentino, showing a female nude with five children in a garden, she, reclining on drapery before architectural elements, the rim with a modelled strapwork band reserving blue-glazed and faux-marbled shallow wells, flanked by grinning masks and urns of fruit, the reverse with faux marbled glaze
Long. 48 cm, larg. 40 cm. width. 19 in, depth. 16 in
Related Literature
A. Tainturier, Les terres émaillées de Bernard Palissy inventeur des rustiques figulines, Paris, 1863, p. 130, no. 212 ;
F. Barbe, F. Coulon, J. Denis-Dupuis, 'Le collectionnisme des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Les céramiques post-palisséennes de provenance ancienne dans les collections françaises' in Bernard Palissy: nouveaux regards sur la céramique française aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Technè, 47, 2019, pp. 128-143.
Four dishes of this type are in the Louvres, Paris, inv. nos. OA 5014, 1336, MR 3537, 2297, and a further dish is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, acc. no. 77-1865. Near contemporary to the production of these dishes, they were imitated in the Delftware centers of London in the early to mid-17th century. One such surviving dish, produced at Southwark on the banks of the river Thames, is dated 1633 and according to the literature is the earliest known example recorded in English Delftware. The dish, formerly in the Collection of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little, sold, Replica Shoes 's, New York, 21-22 October 1994, lot 484, later entered the Longridge Collection and sold, Christie's, London, 25 May 2011, lot 143.