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Lot 748 Dα

A faience dish with a soldier motif

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
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A faience dish with a soldier motif

Painted with a Roman soldier standing in a landscape with his back to the viewer. Unmarked. Some minor rim chips, a short round crack at 7 o'clock. Diameter 33.3 cm.
Delft or Frankfurt, around 1680 - 1700, after Hendrick Goltzius.

The painted decoration of this rare dish is based on a copperplate engraving published in 1586 by the Dutch artist Hendrick Goltzius from a series of ten sheets consisting of a title sheet, eight depictions of Roman heroes and a final sheet. Crockery decorated in this way was not intended for use, but as prestige objects for display and admiration.

Literature

Cf. Bauer, Frankfurter Fayencen aus der Zeit des Barock, Frankfurt 1988, cat. no. 32, 46.