Lot 20
20
AN ALBARELLO

Details
AN ALBARELLO
FAENZA, EARLY 16TH CENTURY

Of tapering cylindrical form with moulded shoulder and foot bands, painted in blue and white with alla porcellana arabesques and labeled in Gothic script for dia. callamito, each moulded band painted in green and ochre as a robbiana, the underside inscribed in red with Sackler number 79.5.12 (three vertical and one diagonal crack to body, restored rim chips to mouth, blue glaze of foot refreshed, test drill holes to underside)--8in. (20.3cm.) high
Provenance
Emil Dreyfus; Galerie Fischer, Luzern, November 30, 1967, lot 100 ($ to ??)
With Cyril Humphris, London
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., no. ?
San Francisco, CA, no. 23

Lot Essay

Labeled for Common Callamint.

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381r58 dated September 1985 from the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, stating that the sample tested was last fired between 340 and 520 years ago (1465-1645).