Lot Essay
For baluster jugs of similar form, but with enamelled decoration, see Lanmon/Whitehouse 1993, p. 25, figs. 5.1 and 5.2, also op.cit., p. 24, no.5.
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FIRST HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY, VENICE
Details
A faon de Venise baluster jug
First half of the 16th Century, Venice
With lightly moulded vertical ribs, an applied trailed footring and shallow kick-in base, the dark-blue scroll handle with traces of a gilt band and pincered terminal, applied with a wide band of dark-blue trailing beneath an everted rim with pinched spout and enriched with a gilt band (gilding rubbed, crack to base)
7.3/8 in. (18.8 cm.) high
First half of the 16th Century, Venice
With lightly moulded vertical ribs, an applied trailed footring and shallow kick-in base, the dark-blue scroll handle with traces of a gilt band and pincered terminal, applied with a wide band of dark-blue trailing beneath an everted rim with pinched spout and enriched with a gilt band (gilding rubbed, crack to base)
7.3/8 in. (18.8 cm.) high
Literature
Baumgartner 1995, pp. 27 and 88, no. 168.
Exhibited
Musée Ariana, Geneva, May-September 1995, no. 168.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.