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ITALIAN SCHOOL, 18th CENTURY DESIGN FOR A EWER Pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white, over a black chalk sketch, unframed 35 x 19cm. * A drawing showing a related design is in the Uffizi, Florence. The traditional attribution is to Polidoro da Caravaggio (1492-1543), but the style suggests an artist of the 1550-1575 period. A drawing attributed to Marco Marchetti (c.1528-1588) (Christchurch, Oxford) is similar but in reverse. Provenance: Kate de Rothschild, 1980 Exhibited: London, Kate de Rothschild, 1980, no.2 Literature: Peter Fuhring, Design into Art - Drawings for Architecture and Ornament, The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection, volume 1, (London 1989), p.353, no.543