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FINE EUROPEAN CERAMICS Wednesday 14 June 2017 SPECIALIST AND AUCTION ENQUIRIES EUROPEAN CERAMICS Sebastian Kuhn Nette Megens Sophie von der Goltz FINE EUROPEAN CERAMICS Wednesday 14 June 2017 at 2pm New Bond Street, London VIEWING ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES PHYSICAL CONDITION OF Sunday 11 June Nette Megens Monday to Friday 8.30am LOTS IN THIS AUCTION 11am - 3pm Head of Department to 6pm PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY Monday 12 June +44 (0) 20 7468 8348 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 REFERENCE IN THIS 9am - 4.30pm [email protected] CATALOGUE TO THE PHYSICAL Tuesday 13 June Please see page 2 for bidder CONDITION OF ANY LOT IS FOR 9am - 4.30pm Sebastian Kuhn information including after-sale GENERAL GUIDANCE ONLY. +44 (0) 20 7468 8384 collection and shipment INTENDING BIDDERS MUST SALE NUMBER [email protected] SATISFY THEMSELVES AS TO 24223 THE CONDITION OF ANY LOT Sophie von der Goltz AS SPECIFIED IN CLAUSE 14 OF CATALOGUE +44 (0) 20 7468 8349 THE NOTICE TO BIDDERS [email protected] CONTAINED AT THE END OF £25.00 THIS CATALOGUE. International Director BIDS As a courtesy to intending +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 European Ceramics & Glass bidders, Bonhams will provide a +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax John Sandon written indication of the physical To bid via the internet please +44 (0) 20 7468 8244 condition of lots in this sale if a visit bonhams.com [email protected] request is received up to 24 hours before the auction starts. This Please note that bids should be written Indication is issued submitted no later than 4pm on subject to Clause 3 of the Notice the day prior to the sale. New to Bidders. bidders must also provide proof of identity when submitting bids. Failure to do this may result in IMPORTANT INFORMATION your bid not being processed. The United States Government has banned the import of ivory Telephone bidding can only into the USA. Lots containing be accepted on lots with a ivory are indicated by the low-estimate in excess of £1,000. symbol Ф printed beside the lot number in this catalogue. Live online bidding is available for this sale Please email [email protected] with ‘live bidding’ in the subject line 48 hours before the auction to register for this service Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams International Board Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Gordon McFarlan, Andrew McKenzie, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Harvey Cammell Deputy Chairman, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Mike Neill, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, India Phillips, Matthew Girling CEO, Lucinda Bredin, Simon Cottle, Andrew Currie, Peter Rees, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Veronique Scorer, James Stratton, Ralph Taylor, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Jon Baddeley, Rupert Banner, Geoffrey Davies, Charles Graham-Campbell, Matthew Haley, Charlie Thomas, David Williams, Jonathan Fairhurst, Asaph Hyman, James Knight, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, David Johnson, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Caroline Oliphant, Shahin Virani, Charles Lanning, Miranda Leslie, Edward Wilkinson, Leslie Wright. SALE INFORMATION BIDS SHIPPING The following symbol is used IMPORTANT NOTICE +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 For information and estimates to denote that VAT is due on A surcharge of 2% is applicable +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax on domestic and international the hammer price and buyer’s when using MasterCard & Visa credit To bid via the internet please visit shipping as well as export premium cards and overseas debit cards www.bonhams.com licenses please contact Alban Shipping on +44 (0) 1582 493 099 † VAT 20% on hammer price Payment in Advance PAYMENTS [email protected] and buyer’s premium (Telephone to ascertain amount due) Buyers by: cash, cheque with banker’s card, +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Collection and Storage VAT on imported items at a credit, or debit card. +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax after sale preferential* rate of 5% on hammer All sold lots will remain in price and the prevailing rate on Payment at time of collection by: Sellers Bonhams New Bond Street buyer’s premium cash, cheque with banker’s card, Payment of sale proceeds Collections department free credit, or debit card. +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 of charge until 5.30pm Y These lots are subject to CITES +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Wednesday 28 June 2017. regulations, please read the Lots not collected by then will information in the back of VALUATIONS, TAXATION be returned to the department. the catalogue. & HERITAGE storage charges may apply. +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax [email protected] CATALOGUE SUBSCRIPTIONS To obtain any Bonhams catalogue or to take out an annual subscription: Subscriptions Department +44 (0) 1666 502200 +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax [email protected] 1 A VENICE MAIOLICA ISTORIATO DISH, WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO DOMENEGO, CIRCA 1560 Painted with a depiction of Joseph’s dreams (Genesis 37:1-44:9), the reverse with yellow bands and inscribed iosefo.vide.che.dormenda/sognia. la.luna.el.sol.agru.farli/riverencia.con.undici.stelle/ in.conpagnia, [Joseph saw in his dream when he slept the moon and the sun and eleven stars making reverence to him in the countryside] 25cm diam. (restored) £2,000 - 3,000 1 €2,400 - 3,600 US$2,600 - 3,900 2 AN URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO DISH, MID 16TH CENTURY Painted with a scene after Livy depicting Coriolanus greeting his mother Veturia, his wife and children before the walls of Rome, the reverse with yellow bands and inscribed in blue ‘la pi[?]ita di coroliano verso /la matre veturia’, 25.5cm diam. (restored) £2,000 - 3,000 €2,400 - 3,600 US$2,600 - 3,900 See D. Thornton/T. Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics (2009), I, no. 184, for a dish in the British Museum painted by Francesco Durantino with a different depiction of the same subject. 2 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 6 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 3 A PESARO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO MOULDED TAZZA, 16TH CENTURY Depicting Marcus Curtius riding his horse into a chasm, 28.6cm diam. (large glaze losses to front, section of foot missing) £3,000 - 5,000 3 €3,600 - 6,000 US$3,900 - 6,500 4 A MAIOLICA DISH, POSSIBLY DUCHY OF URBINO, 17TH CENTURY The centre decorated with a scene depicting ladies playing instruments in a landscape, the rim with a border of flowers in vases, scattered insects and two putti holding flower garlands, 23.5cm diam. £2,000 - 3,000 €2,400 - 3,600 US$2,600 - 3,900 4 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. FINE EUROPEAN CERAMICS | 7 5 A MONTELUPO MAIOLICA CHARGER, EARLY 17TH CENTURY Decorated in ochre, brown, green, blue and yellow with radiating geometric bands, the rim edged in ochre, 33.2cm diam. (rim chip, hair crack to rim) £2,000 - 3,000 €2,400 - 3,600 US$2,600 - 3,900 5 A dish with a similar geometric border is in the British Museum, London; illustrated in D. Thornton/T. Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, A catalogue of the British Museum collection, Vol. I (2009), p.204, no.129. Another is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; see Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica (1940/1977), pl.56, no.354. 6 A MONTELUPO MAIOLICA TAZZA, 17TH CENTURY Decorated with an exotic bird within a yellow- ground circular panel surrounded by a wide border of moulded radiating panels with alternating blue and orange or green grounds reserved with foliate motifs, the rim blue, the underside with blue and yellow lines, 24.3cm diam. (small chip to rim, typical minor glaze losses) £1,500 - 2,000 €1,800 - 2,400 US$1,900 - 2,600 6 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 8 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 7 A LARGE NOVE, ANTONIBON, FAIENCE DISH, CIRCA 1750 Decorated in blue, green and ochre with a Chinoiserie scene of a man smoking a long pipe seated in a landscape surrounded by flowering plants, the shaped rim with a scrolling border of rocailles and shells, 40.4cm diam. (typical minor glaze losses to rim) £2,000 - 3,000 €2,400 - 3,600 US$2,600 - 3,900 A tureen and cover from the same service is illustrated in S. Levy, Maioliche Settecentesche - Lombarde e Venete (1962), frontispiece. For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. FINE EUROPEAN CERAMICS | 9 8 8 10 A PAIR OF MARSEILLE FAIENCE PLATES, POSSIBLY ROBERT’S TWO FAENZA, FERNIANI, FAIENCE OVAL DISHES WITH FACTORY, CIRCA 1765-75 PIERCED BORDERS, CIRCA 1770-80 Each painted with a flower spray and further scattered flowers and Decorated with a stylised chinoiserie pattern of flowers issuing from insects, wavy, ochre-edged rims, 24.7cm diam. (2) a blue rocky ground, the pierced basketwork rims painted with polychrome flower buds and edged in green, 26.4cm long (two fine haircracks to the rim on one) (2) £1,000 - 1,500 €1,200 - 1,800 US$1,300 - 1,900 £800 - 1,200 €950 - 1,400 US$1,000 - 1,600 9 A GROUP OF TWO FAENZA, FERNIANI, OVAL DISHES AND A FAENZA, FERNIANI, TAZZA, CIRCA 1770-80 11 Each decorated with a Chinoiserie pattern of stylised Oriental flowers A FAENZA, FERNIANI, FAIENCE ARMORIAL PLATE, CIRCA issuing from a blue rocky ground surrounded by an iron-red trellis- 1770-80 pattern band, the rims with flower sprigs within a blue line border, the Decorated with an armorial in the centre surrounded by stylised tazza: 32.8cm diam., the dishes: 28cm long (tazza: foot damaged and Oriental flowers issuing from a blue rocky ground, the rim with four crack to rim) (3) flower sprigs within a blue line border around the brown-edged rim, 23.5cm diam.