Two Trapani baluster armorial vases

EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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Two Trapani baluster armorial vases
Early 17th century
Painted in ochre, yellow and green reserved on a blue ground with an oval coat-of-arms within bicephalic eagles head, mask and strapwork cartouche, within a robbiana, the reverse with scattered scrolling ribbons (both vases with glaze wear and chips to rims, one with short crack to neck)
8in. (20.25cm.), 7¾in. (19.75cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

For other pharmacy vases, with similar cartouches for the armorials see Antonino Ragona, La maiolica siciliano dalle origini all'ottocento (1986), figs. 84-91; fig. 85 is particularly close in the treatment of the armorial.

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