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A Castelli maiolica dish, Francesco Antonio Saverio Grue, first half of the 18th century

Alternate Warehouse

Estimate

800 - 1,200 EUR

Lot Details

Description

painted with an allegory of Time, as an old man wearing drapery, winged and holding a clepsydra, flying with Mercury over a landscape with a river, waterfalls, a castle and mountains in the distance, the border with putti and bunches of flowers, signed on a scroll within a concentric yellow roundel: SAVERIO GRVE P; above a cartouche inscribed: ALIGER ECCE DEUS / CVRSUM REPRIMERE TENTAT / TEMPORIS VT TACITOS COMPLEAT / IPSE DOLOS

29.8 cm, 7¾ in. diameter

Wannenes, Genoa, 18 November 2013, lot 5.

The inscription on the dish appears to refer to Virgil’s Aeneid (Book IV, v. 430 or Book VI, v. 46): Ecco il Dio alato che tenta di fermare il corso del Tempo che silenziosamente completa i suoi inganni.

Related Literature:

L. Arabace, Francesco Antonio Saverio Grue (1686–1746), Ascoli Piceno, 2005, p. 47, fig. 35, pp. 94-95, figs. 95, 97.

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