Pick of the week: Maiolica renaissance as basin from Italian workshop makes £100,000

Dealers from France and England contributed to a protracted bidding battle for a rare Renaissance maiolica dish offered at an auction house in Saxony.

The tri-lobed basin sold by Mehlis in Plauen, eastern Germany, on August 22, was catalogued as ‘pr…

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