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 collection FlorenceCfr: Catalogue de la Collection Pisa. Milan: 1937, II tav CXLI. The work is accompanied by a certificate of free circulation. The important coat of arms proposed here is certainly attributable to theFlorenttega dei della Robbia, revealing particular tangencieswith the production of Giovanni, son of Andrea, who took the reinsof the workshop at the death of the father in 1525. However, to onemore careful gaze we cannot fail to notice the particular formof the blazon, the densest agency, but from the polychrome in partLess lively, the most dynamic and pulsating style of naturalisticghirland, which would be defined as almost restless and at the same time morepopular and sometimes less sought after: all details these that, to oursNOTICE, they can identify the maiolica manufacturer in Marcoof the Robbia the young man, brother of Giovanni, born in 1468 edied, probably in Montecassiano, after 1532, betterknown as Fra ’Mattia for taking the votes, in 1496, nearThe Dominican convent of San Marco, where he continued his activityartistic aimed above all at the creation of devotional works, such asG. Gentilini, I of the Robbia, rightly known. SculptureBinning in the Renaissance, Florence 1992, pp. 372-375. Inparticular, we can report that our coat of arms appearsStlistically close to that of the Bonsi family of the wheel,also coming from the Contini-Bonaccossi collection eThe 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).