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Armorial Dish
Lost Art-ID
311025
Artist
Avelli, Francesco Xanto
Birth
1486/1487?, Rovigo (?)
Death
1542?
Place of activity
Urbino, Faenza (?)
First mentioned
1520/1525
Title
Armorial Dish
Datierung
1532 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Height
48.26 cm
Inventory number
Auktionskatalog London 1939, Kat.Nr. 77
Description
Decorated with the Pucci arms and superbly painted with a stag hunting scene, in the background a castle, and galleys and felucca-like vessels to the right, inscribed on an oblong box in bianco-sopra-bianco with the signature "Fra Axanto. A. da Rovigo, i Urbino". The Unsderside with two yellow bands around the rim, the sunk centre inscribed in blue: "MDXXXII in Libia giunto Enea eo sette Naui co li compagni treo dal bosco al lito sette gra cervi poderosi e grani. / Nel I libro della Eneida virgiliana. F. Zanto A.R.i. Urbino"
Verlustgeschichte
München, 1938
Die Sammlung (ca. 440 Werke) wurde 1938 in München anläßlich der "Reichskristallnacht" durch die SS beschlagnahmt und 1939 (7./8.06 und 19./20.07.) in London bei Sotheby´s versteigert.
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Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
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