A CASTELDURANTE ISTORIATO ARMORIAL WAISTED ALBARELLO probably from the workshop of Simone da Colonello, painted with figures before a burning town in a continuous landscape, one side with two putti holding up the Arms, named for RADIX·DITTAMILBI· on a ribbon below, the rim and footrim with borders of stylised trophies and masks (extensively damaged and repaired), Urbino or Castel Durante, circa 1563

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A CASTELDURANTE ISTORIATO ARMORIAL WAISTED ALBARELLO probably from the workshop of Simone da Colonello, painted with figures before a burning town in a continuous landscape, one side with two putti holding up the Arms, named for RADIX·DITTAMILBI· on a ribbon below, the rim and footrim with borders of stylised trophies and masks (extensively damaged and repaired), Urbino or Castel Durante, circa 1563
31.5cm. high

Lot Essay

The Arms are those of either Della Torre of Ravenna or Torelli of Forli. Another example from the same series was sold in these Rooms on 2 March 1992, lot 12; see also Bernard Rackham, op. cit., no. 981

Cf. Rudolph E. A. Drey, 'Pots de pharmacie du duché d'Urbino à décor dit "istoriato"', Revue d'Histoire de la Pharmacie, nos. 264 (Mars 1985), pp. 5-13 and 274 (Septembre 1987), pp. 195-200 for a detailed survey of this group of wares and where other examples are cited.
Simone da Colonello signed a vase from another armorial set of jars although this does not have istoriato decoration, see Don Corrado Leonardi, La ceramica Rinascimentale Metaurense, p. 58, no. 39

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