Lot Essay
See Timothy Wilson, Maiolica, Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Ashmolean Museum (1989), p. 13 for a jug of similar form.
LATE 15TH CENTURY
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A Tuscan oviform jug
Late 15th Century
With a slightly flared tri-lobed neck and angular flat strap handle, painted with a cross within blue and turquoise concentric bands surrounded by blue and ochre San Bernardino rays within an oval cartouche, and with vertical bands of hatching and lines (restorations)
10 in. (25.5 cm.) high
Late 15th Century
With a slightly flared tri-lobed neck and angular flat strap handle, painted with a cross within blue and turquoise concentric bands surrounded by blue and ochre San Bernardino rays within an oval cartouche, and with vertical bands of hatching and lines (restorations)
10 in. (25.5 cm.) high