Lot Essay
Cf. Jeanne Giacomotti, op. cit. (1979), p.p. 413/414, no. 1226; see also the similar example sold in these Rooms on 3 July 1989, lot 350.
CIRCA 1580
Details
A Montelupo wet-drug jar
Circa 1580
Named for SYo·DASEZIO on a scroll on a ground of blue, yellow and ochre stylised pine-cones and scrolls, the strap handle with herring-bone ornament and the spout with an ochre support (restoration to tip of spout, repaired chip and chips to foot, minor glaze flaking to rim and handle)
9 5/8in. (24.5cm.) high
Circa 1580
Named for SYo·DASEZIO on a scroll on a ground of blue, yellow and ochre stylised pine-cones and scrolls, the strap handle with herring-bone ornament and the spout with an ochre support (restoration to tip of spout, repaired chip and chips to foot, minor glaze flaking to rim and handle)
9 5/8in. (24.5cm.) high
Literature
Bernard Rackham, Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica (1959), pl. 142, no. 333.