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Tazza with Saint John in sheepskin holding a cross

Lost Art-ID
311109
Artist / Creator
Calamelli, Virgilio
Death
1570 (um)
Place of activity
Faenza
First mentioned
1531.10 (um)
Title
Tazza with Saint John in sheepskin holding a cross
Dating
1540 (um)
Object type
Vessel
Group of reported objects
Crafts and other folk arts
Height
27.30 cm
Inventory number
Auktionskatalog London 1939, Kat.Nr. 159
Description
A FAENZA TAZZA WITH " SCANNELLATO " MOULDING, by Virgiliotio Calamelli da Faenza, decorated a berettino with a central medallion containing a full length figure of St. John in sheepskin and cloak holding a cross and gourd, typical green landscape with blue wavy hills, within radiating flutes decorated with formal foliate motifs in blue and white on a dark blue and brown ground, the underside with orange and blue feathery leaf scrolls on the moulded compartments, 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).

Published since
2005
Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
Circumstances of loss reported as
Nazi-confiscated property
Search Request, Person

Pringsheim, Alfred

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