Ceramics

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SPANISH METALWORK
Metalwork
486. Pair o f C a n d l e s t i c k s
Spanish, circa 1650-1700
Bronze
Height: 5 ft. 8 % i n . (175 cm) each
Accession number 86.DH.601.1-.2
PROVENANCE
Commissioned by the Counts o f Benavente;
(offered for sale, Christies, London, A p r i l 24,
1986, lot 34, withdrawn); [Rainer Zietz, L t d . ,
London].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1986," GettyMusJi^ (1987),
no. 120, p. 219, illus.
4
Ceramics
8
7
PROVENANCE
Leonardo Lapiccirella, Florence; (sold,
4 8 7 . H i s p a n o - M o r e s q u e Deep D i s h
(brasero)
Valencia, mid-fifteenth century
Blue and copper luster-glazed earthenware
Marked IHS i n the center o f the obverse.
Height: 4% i n . (10.8 cm); Diameter: 1 ft. 7 / 2
i n . (49.5 cm)
Accession number 85.DE.441
486
Christie's, L o n d o n , July 1,1985, l o t 270);
[Rainer Zietz, L t d . , L o n d o n ] .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Giovanni C o n t i , L'Arte de٧a maiolica in
Italia ( M i l a n , 1973), p i . 8; Apollo 122 (1985),
no. 5, p. 405; "Acquisitions/1985," GettyMusJ
14 (1986), no. 214, p. 252, illus; Hess, Maio­
lica, no. 2, pp. 14-15, illus; Handbook 1991,
p. 201, illus.
SPANISH
488. T i l e F l o o r
(?) Manises, circa 1425-1450
Tin-glazed earthenware
Speratens and ne oblyer inscribed i n the hex­
agonal tiles: a coat o f arms, ofbarry of six
argent and gules, painted o n the square tiles.
Length: 7 ft. i 4 i n . (220 cm); W i d t h : 3 ft.
3
6 A i n . ( n o cm); Square Tiles: Length:
7
4%6 i n . to 4 /s i n . (11.2 to 12.4 cm);
7
Hexagonal Tiles: Length: 8 % i n . to 8 /i6 i n .
9
(21 to 21.8 cm); W i d t h : 4% i n . to 4 /s i n .
3
(10.8 to 11.ι cm)
Accession number 84.DE.747
PROVENANCE
Grassi collection, Florence, before 1920;
R u t h and Leopold Blumka, N e w York.
EXHIBITIONS
A l l e n t o w n A r t Museum, Beyond Nobility:
Art for the Private Citizen in the Early
Renaissance, September 1980-January 1981,
no. 122, pp. 115-116.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A n n a Berendsen et al., Tiles (London, 1967),
p. 76; "Acquisitions/1984," GettyMus) i3
r
(1985), no. 151, p. 239, illus; Hess, Maiolica,
no. ι , pp. 12-13.
488
CERAMICS
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