TWO VENICE PORTRAIT VASO A PALLA perhaps painted in the workshop of Maestro Domenico, each with two shoulder length portraits within circular medallions on a blue ground broadly painted with scrolling foliage, flowers, fruit and an acorn, one with two portrait of ladies, one in profile and the other turned to her right, the other with a portrait of a lady in profile and a bearded man half-turned to his right (the first with slight scratching and the second extensively cracked around the lower part and repaired, repaired chip to rim and crack to rim), circa 1560

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TWO VENICE PORTRAIT VASO A PALLA perhaps painted in the workshop of Maestro Domenico, each with two shoulder length portraits within circular medallions on a blue ground broadly painted with scrolling foliage, flowers, fruit and an acorn, one with two portrait of ladies, one in profile and the other turned to her right, the other with a portrait of a lady in profile and a bearded man half-turned to his right (the first with slight scratching and the second extensively cracked around the lower part and repaired, repaired chip to rim and crack to rim), circa 1560
23cm. high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Wendy M. Watson, Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection, pp. 172-3, no. 69 for a full discussion of these type of jars; see also the examples sold in these Rooms on 14 June 1994, lot 57 and on 3 October 1988, lots 46 and 47

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