Lot Essay
Cf. Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux, fig. 1299, p. 434, for a similar albarello marked ROMA FECIT in the collection of the Musée national de cèramique at Sèvres
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A PAIR OF WAISTED CYLINDRICAL ARMORIAL ALBARELLI
Circa 1620, probably Rome
Named for V.RASINO and V.EGIPTIACO beneath shields emblazoned with ears of wheat issuant from conjoined hands each flanked by the initials M B and surmounted by winged cherub's heads, one side with the arms reserved on a ground of grotessche and to the reverse on a ground of blue fruiting foliage (one with very slight rim chips)
8 1/2in. (21.5cm.) (2)
Circa 1620, probably Rome
Named for V.RASINO and V.EGIPTIACO beneath shields emblazoned with ears of wheat issuant from conjoined hands each flanked by the initials M B and surmounted by winged cherub's heads, one side with the arms reserved on a ground of grotessche and to the reverse on a ground of blue fruiting foliage (one with very slight rim chips)
8 1/2in. (21.5cm.) (2)