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AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA DOCUMENTARY ALBARELLO
CASTEL DURANTE, DATED 1539
Of waisted cylindrical form, painted in blue and white enriched in ochre and green with a robbiana enclosing a pharmacy cipher and typical trophies in turn enclosing the label for 'SVSTINO IMPE', inscribed front and back '1539', rim chips restored to mouth, edges of shoulder and foot, and footrim, test drill holes to underside
8 3/8in. (21.3cm.) high
CASTEL DURANTE, DATED 1539
Of waisted cylindrical form, painted in blue and white enriched in ochre and green with a robbiana enclosing a pharmacy cipher and typical trophies in turn enclosing the label for 'SVSTINO IMPE', inscribed front and back '1539', rim chips restored to mouth, edges of shoulder and foot, and footrim, test drill holes to underside
8 3/8in. (21.3cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Phillips & Sons Ltd., Lisson Grove, London, 4 May 1973, lot 308
With Cyril Humphris, London
The Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, no. 79.5.13
With Cyril Humphris, London
The Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, no. 79.5.13
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. 58