19TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA RENAISSANCE STYLE TREFOIL VASE
19TH CENTURY
Of trefoil form with upright loop handles issuing from splayed grotesque mask terminals, each lobe painted with a seated musician playing a lute, a pan-pipe or a guitar
12¾ in. (32.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Garbaty, East Norwalk, CT,
Gift to the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1962.
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; Sotheby Park Bennet Inc., 1 June 1978, lot 76 (catalogued as 16th century).

Exhibited

Waltham, MA, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis, University, 1961-1978.

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Lot Essay

A vase of similar form and decoration is in the collection of the Rosen House and Caramoor.
Sold with thermoluminescence certificate N111m47, dated 7 September 2011 from Oxford Authentication, stating that the last firing was between 100 and 150 years ago.

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