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A LARGE ALBARELLO

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A LARGE ALBARELLO
FAENZA, CIRCA 1540-1550, POSSIBLY FROM THE WORKSHOP OF VIRGILIOTTO CALAMELLI

Of cylindrical form, painted a quartieri in blue, green, ochre and yellow on a white ground with a geometric arrangement of acanthus, labeled in Gothic script for Pever longo, the underside inscribed in red with Sackler number 79.6.4 (restored rim chips, footrim worn, test drill holes to underside)--9 1/8in. (23.2cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie,s, London, July 2, 1979, lot 33
With Bernheimer, Munich

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., no. ?
San Francisco, CA, no. 26

Lot Essay

Labeled for Long Pepper

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381r80 dated December 1985 from the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, stating that the sample tested was last fired between 320 and 480 years ago (1505-1665).