CIRCA 1560-80, WORKSHOP OF DOMENEGO DA VENEZIA

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A PAIR OF VENICE MAIOLICA DRUG JARS
CIRCA 1560-80, WORKSHOP OF DOMENEGO DA VENEZIA
Of globular form with a short waisted neck, one painted with a bust portrait medallion of a man facing to right, the other with a woman facing to left, the reverse of each with a three-quarter length portrait of a saint, the first Saint Antony, the second possibly Saint Francis, within similar medallions, reserved on a blue ground with scrolling foliage, flowers and sgraffito scrolls between blue line borders and yellow rims, one with branching crack to body, very minor rim chips and glaze flaking
10½ in. (26.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 14 June 1994, lot 57.
With H. Reichert, Munich.

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Lot Essay

For a discussion of the work of Domenego da Venezia see Julia E. Poole, Italian Maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Cambridge, 1995, pp. 445-445. An example painted with similar female portraits is illustrated by Wendy M. Watson, Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clarke Collection, London, 1986, p. 173, no. 69.

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