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Tazza with young woman holding a lance
Lost Art-ID
311321
Artist / Creator
Calamelli, Virgilio
Death
1570 (um)
Place of activity
Faenza
First mentioned
1531.10 (um)
Title
Tazza with young woman holding a lance
Dating
1540 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Height
24.38 cm
Inventory number
Auktionskatalog London 1939, Kat.Nr. 370
Description
A FAENZA " SCANNELLATO " TAZZA, by Virgiliotto Calamelli da Faenza, painted a berettino with a seated figure of a young woman holding a lance, the background with typical wave-like hills, the spirally moulded body with trofei and grotesche motifs in light blue on alternate brown and dark blue panels, the underside with fruit and flowers in colours on the radiating spiral moulding, 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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