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Tazza with scannellato moulding with figure of Thisbe

Lost Art-ID
311213
Artist / Creator
Calamelli, Virgilio
Death
1570 (um)
Place of activity
Faenza
First mentioned
1531.10 (um)
Title
Tazza with scannellato moulding with figure of Thisbe
Dating
1540 (um)
Object type
Vessel
Group of reported objects
Crafts and other folk arts
Height
27.94 cm
Inventory number
Auktionskatalog London 1939, Kat.Nr. 263
Description
A FAENZA TAZZA WITH "SCANNELLATO" MOULDING, painted a berettino on the convex centre with a full-length figure of Thisbe in orange and blue robes with a sword, the hilt on the ground, a typical blue hilly landscape in the background and alternate orange and green " scannellato "fluting painted with blue leaf motifs, enclosed by a dark blue rim, the underside with orange and blue feathery leaves following the moulding of the panels, on a stout conical foot, llin., botega of Virgiliotto Calamelli da Faenza, 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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