Details
AN ALBARELLO
SOUTH ITALIAN, PROBABLY NAPLES, LATE 15TH CENTURY
Of slightly tapering cylincrical form, painted on white ground in blue, green, ochre and manganese with the portrait of a woman to left reserved against a stylized foliate ground arranged in three registers, the underside inscribed in red with Sackler number 78.2.23 (rim chips to mouth and footrim restored, minor glaze flaws, test drill holes filled)--14in. (35.5cm.) high
Provenance
Sigismund Bardac
Mortimer L. Schiff, New York; Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, May 4, 1946, lot 26
Dr. Abe Bak, New York; Sotheby & Co., London, December 7, 1965, lot 33 ($$ to ??)
With Cyril Humphris, London
Literature
H. Leman, Collection Sigismund Bardac, Faiences Italiennes du XUe Siècle, Paris, 1913, pl. 17
de Ricci, Catalogue of Early Italian Maiolica in the Collection of Mortimer Schiff, pl. 37
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., no. ?
San Francisco, CA, no. 13
