拍品专文
The source for the event depicted on the present dish is an engraving by Marco Dente da Ravenna [Illustrated Bartsche, vol. 26, no. 210 (171)] (fig. 2) which is, in turn, based on one by Marcantonio Raimondi [Illustrated Bartsch, vol. 26, no. 209 (170)] (fig. 3) traditionally considered to be after a drawing by Raphael. However current scholarship now holds that the design may actually be after a drawing by Giulio Romano.
It is interesting to compare this dish with the one from the Sackler Collection, sold in our New York Rooms, 6 October 1993, lot 24, painted by Nicola da Urbino and also formerly in the Pringsheim Collection.
The present subject was a favorite of Xantos and his peers, other examples by Xanto are in the J. Paul Getty Museum, see Catherine Hess, Italian Maiolica Catalogue of the Collections pp. 101-103; two plates in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, (Cluny 915, OA 1839); on in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. C. 2232-1910); one in the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza; and one in the Collocci Honorati collection, Jesi
It is interesting to compare this dish with the one from the Sackler Collection, sold in our New York Rooms, 6 October 1993, lot 24, painted by Nicola da Urbino and also formerly in the Pringsheim Collection.
The present subject was a favorite of Xantos and his peers, other examples by Xanto are in the J. Paul Getty Museum, see Catherine Hess, Italian Maiolica Catalogue of the Collections pp. 101-103; two plates in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, (Cluny 915, OA 1839); on in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. C. 2232-1910); one in the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza; and one in the Collocci Honorati collection, Jesi