Lot Essay
Cf. Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux (Paris 1974), pp. 142-144, nos. 481-487 for seven examples of similar type in the Louvre acquired from the Campana Collection in 1861.
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CIRCA 1530
Details
A PAIR OF DERUTA OVIFORM BOTTLES
CIRCA 1530
Painted predominantly in blue and enriched in green, ochre and yellow, with a woman and a lion before a fire emblematic of Fortitude and with a scantily clad soldier holding a spear and shield inscribed S.P.Q.R. emblematic of Power within a robbiana surround and labelled for A.APPII and A.LVPVLO (the first with old restored chips to neck, a small area of flaking to lion's flank and to right side of bottle, the second with two chips to rim and chip to footrim)
17½ in. (44.5 cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1530
Painted predominantly in blue and enriched in green, ochre and yellow, with a woman and a lion before a fire emblematic of Fortitude and with a scantily clad soldier holding a spear and shield inscribed S.P.Q.R. emblematic of Power within a robbiana surround and labelled for A.APPII and A.LVPVLO (the first with old restored chips to neck, a small area of flaking to lion's flank and to right side of bottle, the second with two chips to rim and chip to footrim)
17½ in. (44.5 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
A. Imbert Collection, no. 518 (paper collection labels attached to necks).
Special notice
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