A Montelupo oviform two-handled "oak-leaf" jar

CIRCA 1480

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A Montelupo oviform two-handled "oak-leaf" jar
Circa 1480
With strap handles, each side with stylised blue and manganese oak leaves and foliage radiating from a central circular cartouche, one side with a bull, the other with a lion, between blue and ochre bands (slight chipping and wear to rim and footrim, slight flaking to glaze of handles and lion cartouche)
5.5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) high

Lot Essay

For similar examples in the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza see Carmen Ravanelli Guidotti, La Donazione Angiolo Fanfani (Ravenna 1990), pp. 29, 30 and 40, and Galeazzo Cora, Storia della maiolica di Firenzi e del contado (Florence 1973) for no. 117a/b for similar pieces from the same pottery.

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