Lot Essay
Cf. R.E.A. Drey, Apothecary Jars: Pharmaceutical Pottery and Porcelain in Europe and the East 1150-1850, London, 1978, p. 31, plate 4B.
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AN ALBARELLO
TUSCAN, EARLY 16TH CENTURY
With straight neck and shallow waist, painted in blue, yellow, green and manganese in the 'Famiglia Gotica' style with foliate scrolls enclosing a cartouche labeled for V.BASILICON (chips to edge of rim, cracks at the back from the rim to the shoulder then diagonally across to the 'V' and down to the center of the lower foliate band)--8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high
TUSCAN, EARLY 16TH CENTURY
With straight neck and shallow waist, painted in blue, yellow, green and manganese in the 'Famiglia Gotica' style with foliate scrolls enclosing a cartouche labeled for V.BASILICON (chips to edge of rim, cracks at the back from the rim to the shoulder then diagonally across to the 'V' and down to the center of the lower foliate band)--8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high