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center right on banner: SELE / VCO (Seleucus); upper center, shield of arms: Argent, a moor's head proper wearing a headband argent charged with three hammers sable; behind the shield, an "ombrellino"; reverse: 1532 / La Classe di Seleuco i / mar'sommersa / Nel XXVII Libro d Iustino Histo: / fra: Xanto A / da Rouigo, i / Urbino (The fleet of Seleucus, submerged in the sea, in the 27th book of Justin's History, Francesco Xanto Avelli of Rovigo, in Urbino); reverse near rim, scratched into glaze, Fountaine inventory number: af 84

Provenance

Ralph Bernal [1783 or 1784-1854], London; (his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, at Bernal residence, London, 5 March-30 April 1855, 32 days, 15th day [22 March], no. 1738); Andrew Fountaine, Esq [1801/1808-1874], Narford Hall, near King's Lynn, Norfolk;[1] by descent in the Fountaine family; (Fountaine sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London,16-19 June 1884, 1st day, no. 40);[2] Oskar Hainauer [1840-1894], Berlin;[3] by inheritance to his widow, Julie Hainauer [1850-1926], Berlin; purchased 1906 with the entire Hainauer collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 17 October 1906 to William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York;[4] bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Exhibition History

2004
Marvels of Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics from the Corcoran Gallery of Art Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh; Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids; Hillstrom Museum of Art, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, 9 April 2004 - 18 June 2006, no. 19.
2007
Treasures of European Decorative Art and Sculpture, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 25 August 2007 - 29 March 2009, no catalogue.
2018
Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018

Bibliography

1897
Bode, Wilhelm von, ed. Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer / The Collection of Oscar Hainauer. [bound as one volume, English and German pages interleaved in one page sequence] Berlin, 1897 and London, 1906: 116, no. 339 (M59).
1925
Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part II. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 261, no. 59.
1955
Breckenridge, James D. "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark Collection." The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin 7, no. 3 (April 1955): no. 80.
1955
Von Erdberg, Joan Prentice. "Italian Maiolica at the Corcoran Gallery of Art." The Burlington Magazine 97, no. 624 (March 1955): 74.
1986
Watson, Wendy M. Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection. Exh. cat. (11 venues). London and Washington, 1986: 132-135, no. 52, repro.
1988
Andrew Moore, "The Fountaine Collection of Maiolica," The Burlington Magazine 130, no. 1023 (June 1988): 444, identified by the Corcoran accession number 26.361.

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