Bottega dei Della Robbia (Marco Della Robbia?)

Circular medallion in a healed terracotta and painted in the tones of blue, yellow, manganese, black and green; The noble coat of arms is enrolled in an elegant shaped shield between sinuous tapes, surrounded by a luxuriant garland of flowers and fruits in which quinces, figs, pomegranates, cucumbers, lemon alternating with blue and small spiga wet flowers; It presents itself mounted in a model molded in walnut in gold, with great probability made by Giò Ponti who designed the furnishings of Villa Vittoria (ex Villino Strozzi, now Palazzo dei Congressi), since 1931 residence of the well -known collector and antiquarian Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, some defects and small shortcomings

Diam 43 cm

Origin: Pisa Collection / Contini Bonacossi CollectionSee: Catalog of La Collection Pisa. Milan: 1937, II Tav CXLI. The important coat of arms proposed here is certainly attributable to the Florenttega dei della Robbia, revealing particular tangencies with the production of Giovanni, son of Andrea, who took the reins of the workshop at the death of the father in 1525. However, to one more careful gaze we cannot fail to notice the particular form of the blazon, the densest agency, but from the polychrome in part Less lively, the most dynamic and pulsating style of naturalistic ghirland, which would be defined as almost restless and at the same time more popular and sometimes less sought after: all details these that, to ours NOTICE, they can identify the maiolica manufacturer in Marco of the Robbia the young man, brother of Giovanni, born in 1468 e died, probably in Montecassiano, after 1532, better known as Fra ’Mattia for taking the votes, in 1496, near The Dominican convent of San Marco, where he continued his activity artistic aimed above all at the creation of devotional works, such as G. Gentilini, I of the Robbia, rightly known. Sculpture Binning in the Renaissance, Florence 1992, pp. 372-375. In particular, we can report that our coat of arms appears Stlistically close to that of the Bonsi family of the wheel, also coming from the Contini-Bonaccossi collection e The young man (S. Dionigi (edited by), Ribbiani coats of arms in Italy and in the world is rightly referred to Marco Della Robbia. For an heraldic, historical and artistic catalog, Florence 2014, p. 163, no. 126). The lot can be viewed by appointment at our office in Corso Italia 6, Florence.