Lot 1038 - A210 Decorative Arts - Thursday, 19. September 2024, 02.00 PM
TWO MAIOLICA PLATES
Siena, from the Bartolomeo Terchi workshop, ca. 1730.
The depictions are from a series entitled “Cavalieri, mori, polacchi e ungheresi”, each with a horseman in a hilly landscape after engravings by Stefano della Bella.
Ø 22.5 cm and 23 cm.
Provenance:
Private collection, Lugano.
The decorations of Bartolomeo Terchi (1691-1766) from Rome can also be traced thanks to signed works in various Italian maiolica manufactories. The Roman Terchi, who came from a Florentine family, came to the Tuscan town of San Quirico d'Orcia in 1717, moved on to neighboring Siena in 1725, and finally to Bassano Romano in Lazio in 1735, where he shaped the refined style of Istoriato decoration in its characteristic color palette in the maiolica manufactories there, cf. a signed pictorial plate from 1723-24, at present in the Musée du Louvre (Inv. No. OA 1852).
The graphic models for these two horsemen come from a series entitled “Cavalieri, mori, polacchi e ungheresi” by Stefano della Bella (1610-1664), see Pelizzoni-G. Zanchi: La maiolica dei Terchi. Florence 1982, nos. 45, 46 and 56, for three plates from this series.
Private collection, Lugano.
The decorations of Bartolomeo Terchi (1691-1766) from Rome can also be traced thanks to signed works in various Italian maiolica manufactories. The Roman Terchi, who came from a Florentine family, came to the Tuscan town of San Quirico d'Orcia in 1717, moved on to neighboring Siena in 1725, and finally to Bassano Romano in Lazio in 1735, where he shaped the refined style of Istoriato decoration in its characteristic color palette in the maiolica manufactories there, cf. a signed pictorial plate from 1723-24, at present in the Musée du Louvre (Inv. No. OA 1852).
The graphic models for these two horsemen come from a series entitled “Cavalieri, mori, polacchi e ungheresi” by Stefano della Bella (1610-1664), see Pelizzoni-G. Zanchi: La maiolica dei Terchi. Florence 1982, nos. 45, 46 and 56, for three plates from this series.
CHF 2 000 / 3 000 | (€ 2 060 / 3 090)
Sold for CHF 2 500 (including buyer’s premium)
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