A PAIR OF SIENA CIRCULAR POT-POURRI BOWLS AND PIERCED COVERS, painted in the manner of Bartolomeo Terchi, the bowls with children with their nurses, a goatherd and a two-storey building in a continuous wooded landscape and with a peasant family and a goatherd, the covers with travellers in a continuous wooded landscape, each blue ball finial with scraffiato scrolling foliage (one bowl with minor crack to rim, the other with two areas of flaking, each cover with repaired rim chip), circa 1730

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A PAIR OF SIENA CIRCULAR POT-POURRI BOWLS AND PIERCED COVERS, painted in the manner of Bartolomeo Terchi, the bowls with children with their nurses, a goatherd and a two-storey building in a continuous wooded landscape and with a peasant family and a goatherd, the covers with travellers in a continuous wooded landscape, each blue ball finial with scraffiato scrolling foliage (one bowl with minor crack to rim, the other with two areas of flaking, each cover with repaired rim chip), circa 1730
34cm. diam. (2)

Lot Essay

See Elena Pelizzoni and Giovanna Zanchi, La maiolica dei Terchi for a detailed discussion concerning his work at Siena and Bassano; a pair of ewers by the same hand were sold in these Rooms, 15 October 1990, lot 250

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