Lot 26
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A MONTELUPO ARMORIAL SMALL WAISTED ALBARELLO
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A MONTELUPO ARMORIAL SMALL WAISTED ALBARELLO

FIRST QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY

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A MONTELUPO ARMORIAL SMALL WAISTED ALBARELLO
FIRST QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY
Painted with a crowned rampant lion within an oval blue band medallion within an ochre border on a ground of scrolling manganese, blue, ochre and green foliage (some chipping to footrim and two glaze flakes to foliage, the glaze to the interior ground in parts)
5 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Cf. the example of larger size sold in these Rooms on 29th June 1981, lot 306; see Sansoni, Storia della maiolica di Firenze e del contado (Florence, 1973) pl. 214 a; see also Fausto Berti, Storia della ceramica di Montelupo (Florence, 1999), vol. 3, nos. 60-61.

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