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Fruit Dish with St. Sebastian
Lost Art-ID
311111
Artist / Creator
Calamelli, Virgilio
Death
1570 (um)
Place of activity
Faenza
First mentioned
1531.10 (um)
Title
Fruit Dish with St. Sebastian
Dating
1540 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Height
23.36 cm
Inventory number
Auktionskatalog London 1939, Kat.Nr. 161
Description
A FAENZA MOULDED FRUIT DISH, by Virgiliotto Calamelli, decorated a berettino with a central medallion containing a half length figure of St. Sebastian pierced by an arrow, within scannellato moulding in orange and blue, decorated with feathery leaves in light blue, the reverse with a lavender blue glaze ornamented with dark blue and orange leaf motifs, supported on a circular conical foot, circa 1540
Provenance
Munich, loss 1938;
The collection (approx. 440 works) was confiscated by the SS in Munich in 1938 on the occasion of the ‘Reichskristallnacht’ and auctioned at Sotheby's in London in 1939 (7/8 June and 19/20 July).
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Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
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