A DELLA ROBBIA THREE SECTION RECTANGULAR PLAQUE MOULDED IN R...

Hammer

£4,200

A DELLA ROBBIA THREE SECTION RECTANGULAR PLAQUE MOULDED IN RELIEF WITH A PROCESSION OF CHILDREN THROUGH A WOODLAND SETTING, in possibly after a design by Ellen Mary Rope and decorated by Marianne de Caluwe, the plaques fitted in rectangular stained pine frame and the reverse of each plaque incised with 1, 2 and 3 within a circle and the end plaques impressed with the Della Robbia mark with 1901, the centre panel faintly painted with 'M d C', internal measurements height 25cm x width 126.3cm, external dimensions height 36.3cm x width 137.6cm x depth 6.3cm (Condition report: the glazed front is crazed throughout, left hand panel has losses where it abuts the centre panel, the centre panel has a glaze chip to the top of the tree trunk on the left hand side, to the end of the pipe and a dress in the centre and a small chips to the top and bottom of the tree trunk on the right hand side, the right hand plaque looks to be in a better state, all three panels are very dusty, the plaque has not been taken out of the frame therefore the edges have not been inspected and cannot be guaranteed, the frame has evidence of there having been further wall brackets, several small chips to the back of the plaques but no major damage noted)