A MONTELUPO DATED WET-DRUG JAR, the oviform body with green and yellow moulded beast scroll handles and short blue spout, named for SY.DICAPELVENER. within a green, ochre and yellow strapwork cartouche with the Arms of Medici above flanked by two grottesche and with a portrait medallion of a youth below, the reverse with grottesche, insects and scrolling foliage, the flared neck with radiating blue and ochre gadroons (minor crack to rim and associated rim repair, minor glaze flaking), 1620

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A MONTELUPO DATED WET-DRUG JAR, the oviform body with green and yellow moulded beast scroll handles and short blue spout, named for SY.DICAPELVENER. within a green, ochre and yellow strapwork cartouche with the Arms of Medici above flanked by two grottesche and with a portrait medallion of a youth below, the reverse with grottesche, insects and scrolling foliage, the flared neck with radiating blue and ochre gadroons (minor crack to rim and associated rim repair, minor glaze flaking), 1620
40.5cm. high

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