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Armorial Tondino with Polyphemus, King of the Cyclops, and Galataea

Lost Art-ID
311340
Artist / Creator
Avelli, Francesco Xanto
Birth
1486/1487?, Rovigo (?)
Death
1542?
Place of activity
Urbino, Faenza (?)
First mentioned
1520/1525
Last mentioned
1542
Title
Armorial Tondino with Polyphemus, King of the Cyclops, and Galataea
Dating
1532 (um)
Object type
Crafts and other folk arts
Group of reported objects
Crafts and other folk arts
Height
26.67 cm
Inventory number
Auktionskatalog London 1939, Kat.Nr. 389
Description
AN URBINO ARMORIAL TONDINO, by Fra. Xanto Avelli, signed in full, painted with the subject of Polyphemus, King of the Cyclops, and Galataea, whom he is wooing with pipes, on the rim the arms of Piero Maria Pucci of Florence, the underside with yellow rim inscribed in blue on the foot " 1532 A Scylla parla Galathea d'amore. Nel. XIII Lib. d'ovidio .M. fra: Xato .A. da Rovigo. i Urbino.", circa 1532
Provenance

Munich, loss 1938;

The collection (approx. 440 works) was confiscated by the SS in Munich in 1938 on the occasion of the ‘Reichskristallnacht’ and auctioned at Sotheby's in London in 1939 (7/8 June and 19/20 July).

Published since
2005
Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
Circumstances of loss reported as
Nazi-confiscated property
Search Request, Person

Pringsheim, Alfred

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