Lot 299: AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF ITALIAN GLAZED TERRACOTTA RELIEF PORTRAITS OF YOUTHS, BY ANDREA DELLA ROBBIA (1435-1525), CIRCA 1470-80, FLORENCE

Name: AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF ITALIAN GLAZED TERRACOTTA RELIEF PORTRAITS OF YOUTHS, BY ANDREA DELLA ROBBIA (1435-1525), CIRCA 1470-80, FLORENCE
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 7fe28bdead

Est: $400,000 USD - $600,000 USDSold:

Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 26, 2012

Item Overview

Description

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MRS. MONIQUE UZIELLI
diameter of each: 17 in.; 43.2 cm.

Artist or Maker

Andrea della Robbia

Literature

youth with yellow outer cloak:
Pierre Courthon, "Luca della Robbia, Portraitiste", in L'Art et les Artistes, 1925, p. 224

Provenance

Ducrot Collection, Palermo
M&R; Stora, Paris
Mrs. Christian R. Holmes, Cincinatti
Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc., Property from the collection of Mrs. Christian R. Holmes, April 15-18, 1942, lots 724 and 725
Baron Cassel van Doorn, New York
Parke Bernet Galleries, Property from the Estate of the Late Baron Cassel van Doorn, December 9-10, 1955, lots 62 and 63

Auction Details

Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture

Sotheby's

January 26, 2012, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US

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