Faenza riser, Painter of hunting scenes, early... Lot 20

Faenza riser, Painter of hunting scenes, early 17th century Majolica decorated in polychrome. Dimensions: height 5@@@ diameter 26 cm. Conservation: small lack at foot@@@ chipping at rim@@@ craquelures. Typical seventeenth-century riser for offering use. A full-page hunting scene is depicted on the upper tier, with a centaur from the right appearing to aim a bow at a hunter on foot, armed with an arquebus. This work is a significant essay by the so-called "Painter of the Hunting Scenes," one of the masters of the mature "compendiary style," in which he confirms the tendency to elaborate in his sketches a rather dense and articulated narrative plot compared to the canonical "whites" of the second half of the 16th century in Faenza, with particular attention to the woodland setting, while the iconographic layout probably refers to hunting scenes of his time, such as those engraved by Tempesta in 1602, which therefore provide an interesting chronological reference to confirm that we are in the early 17th century. Bibliography: Ravanelli Guidotti C, Per il "Pittore delle scene di caccia," in "Faenza," CI (2015), No. 1, pp. 62-67