Bottega Giovanni Della Robbia

Circular medallion in a healed terracotta and painted in tones of blue, yellow, green and brown; The coat of arms is enrolled in an elegant shaped shield on the blue packed cup, surrounded by garland of fruits and flowers in which lemons, pine cones, black grapes and walnuts alternating with small white, yellow and blue flowers; It is 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 home of the well -known collector and antiquarian Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, some defects in the shield and widespread

Diam 41.5 cm

Origin: Contini Bonacossi Collection. The coats of arms and heraldic ornaments, made to reiterate the ownership of the elegant palaces, underline the patronage in buildings religious or charges taken in the Praetori buildings of Florence and his territory, they were a type of production that committed widely, Between the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the following century, the shop dei della Robbia, located in via Guelfa, where Andrea, grandson of progenitor Luca, inventor of the new art of the Miolica Miolica, He continued to work next to his numerous children (Marco the Young, Giovanni, Luca the young man, Francesco and Girolamo), to whom The three grandchildren, sons of Giovanni, as well as as well as other anonymous collaborators outside the family, in order to be able to satisfy the increasingly numerous requests from private individuals and ecclesiastical. This state of affairs sometimes makes it difficult, if not Impossible, to define a precise paternity of these works. In the specimen proposed here, if the beautiful podded cup in blue it seems even to recall the characteristics of the Best specimens of Andrea, resumed and then developed by Giovanni Between 1510 and 1520, a certain execution of execution does Loan for a realization entrusted to the shop. In particular, the less accurate execution of the garland, profiled by a modeling in ovoli seems almost to be affected, in plasticity almost completely diluted and in the limited compositional rigire, even more that of the imaginative and decorative vein of John, of certain stylistic solutions of the rival shop of Santi and Bendetto Buglioni. The lot can be viewed by appointment at our office in Corso Italia 6, Florence.