A terracotta verniciata bust of St. John The Baptist

CIRCA 1580, DELLA ROBBIA WORKSHOP

细节

A terracotta verniciata bust of St. John The Baptist
Circa 1580, Della Robbia workshop
Modelled as a youth, slightly to the right, wearing a Roman cobalt-blue mantle fastened at the shoulders over a camel-skin vest (chipping to left clasp, flaking to glaze and chip to lower left edge of mantle, firing crack to right shoulder)
13½ in. (34.3 cm.) high

拍品专文

The result of thermoluminescence analysis by the research laboratory Alliance-Science-Art in Paris is consistent with the dating of this lot.

For a related example from the workshop of Andrea della Robbia, see Allan Marquard, Andrea della Robbia and his atelier (1972), p. 227, fig. 281.