A CASTELLI PORTRAIT WET-DRUG JAR OF 'ORSINI-COLONNA' TYPE and baluster form, with a strap handle and dragon's head spout moulded with green and ochre scales, painted with two half-length portraits of a man wearing a hat and a woman facing each other, flanking the spout, below flowerhead medallions and above a label inscribed ·Ole. decapparib·, the reverse with blue scrolls, lines and dots (slight chip to rim and body, some areas of glaze flaking), early 16th century

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A CASTELLI PORTRAIT WET-DRUG JAR OF 'ORSINI-COLONNA' TYPE and baluster form, with a strap handle and dragon's head spout moulded with green and ochre scales, painted with two half-length portraits of a man wearing a hat and a woman facing each other, flanking the spout, below flowerhead medallions and above a label inscribed ·Ole^. decapparib·, the reverse with blue scrolls, lines and dots (slight chip to rim and body, some areas of glaze flaking), early 16th century
25.5cm. high

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's London, 17 February 1969, lot 195

Lot Essay

See Giorgio Baldisseri et al., Le Maioliche Cinquecentesche Di Castelli, pp. C61-C65, nos. 391-399 for other examples of the same type, previously attributed to Faenza; see also Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, nos. 250-252

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