AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA LARGE ALBARELLO

Details

AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA LARGE ALBARELLO
FAENZA, CIRCA 1540-1550, POSSIBLY FROM THE WORKSHOP OF VIRGILIOTTO CALAMELLI

Of cylindrical form, painted a quartieri on a white ground in shades of blue, green, orchre and yellow with a geometric arrangement of acanthus, labeled in Gothic script for 'pever longo', restored rim chips, footrim worn, test drill holes to the underside
9 1/8in. (23.2cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 2 July 1979, lot 33
With Bernheimer, Munich
The Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, no. 79.6.4

Literature

Hugo Morley-Fletcher and Roger McIlroy, Christie's Pictorial History of European Pottery, London, 1984, p. 40, fig. 6

Exhibited

San Francisco, CA, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor, Italian Maiolica from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 5 July 1986 - 1988, no. 26

Lot Essay

Labeled for 'Long Pepper'

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381r80 dated December 1985 from the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, stating that the sample tested was last fired between 320 and 480 years ago (1505-1665).