Details
AN ALBARELLO
16TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY SOUTH ITALIAN (KINGDOM OF NAPLES)
Painted in shades of blue, green, yellow and ochre, the front with the portrait of a woman to left enclosed within a wreath, her hair swept up in a net, a cross hanging from a beaded chain around her neck, the back with foliate arabesques, the sloping shoulder and foot with a band of cross hatching within blue lines, the underside with the Damiron label inscribed in red No 36--10 3/8in. (26.5cm.) high
16TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY SOUTH ITALIAN (KINGDOM OF NAPLES)
Painted in shades of blue, green, yellow and ochre, the front with the portrait of a woman to left enclosed within a wreath, her hair swept up in a net, a cross hanging from a beaded chain around her neck, the back with foliate arabesques, the sloping shoulder and foot with a band of cross hatching within blue lines, the underside with the Damiron label inscribed in red No 36--10 3/8in. (26.5cm.) high
Provenance
Caillot Collection, Paris
Charles Damiron, Lyon, no. 36
Charles Damiron, Lyon, no. 36
Literature
Charles Damiron, Majoliques italiennes, Paris, 1944, no. 36 (as Pesaro, 15th century)