Lot 2
2
AN HISPANO-MORESQUE STYLE ALBARELLO

Details
AN HISPANO-MORESQUE STYLE ALBARELLO
IN THE 15TH CENTURY STYLE

Of waisted cylindrical form, lustred in copper on a blue ground with geometric patterns and an Arabic inscription, the underside inscribed in red with Sackler number 79.5.17 (minor chips, test drill holes to footrim)--10 1/8in. (25.7cm.) high
Provenance
Sydney N. Blumberg, Newtown, CT; Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, November 1, 1973, lot 173 ($?? to ?)
With Cyril Humphris, London

Lot Essay

The Arabic inscription translates as "There is no God but the only God".

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381r61 dated December 1985 from the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, stating that the sample tested was last fired less than 100 years ago (1885-1985).