Crespina in 16th-century Gubbio lustre majolica - Lot 20

Crespina in 16th-century Gubbio lustre majolica Label for A Gubbio n°68 Decorated in blue and lustre with copper and red, with the monogram IHS in relief in the center, the wing molded with a frieze of pine cones, missing and minor restorations. D. 20 cm. Provenance : Former Henri Blay collection (1861-1920). For another model of similar form and decoration, see Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, p.220, n.720. For two other models in the same spirit and with the same monogram, in the collections of the British Museum, London, attributed to the workshop of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli circa 1530, see by Timothy Wilson, Italian" Renaissance "ceramics, London, 2009, Vol.II, pp.351-353.