Lot 192
192
A TALAVERA OVIFORM TWO-HANDLED VASE, the angular strap handles painted with trailing flowering foliage and with moulded yellow mask terminals, the body painted with two prancing horses and two stags in a continuous mountainous landscape flanked by trees and between bands of meandering flowers and false gadroons, the flared cylindrical neck with two birds among trees (cracks to neck, minor chips and glaze flakes), late 17th Century

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A TALAVERA OVIFORM TWO-HANDLED VASE, the angular strap handles painted with trailing flowering foliage and with moulded yellow mask terminals, the body painted with two prancing horses and two stags in a continuous mountainous landscape flanked by trees and between bands of meandering flowers and false gadroons, the flared cylindrical neck with two birds among trees (cracks to neck, minor chips and glaze flakes), late 17th Century
21in. (52.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Comparable with an example sold in these Rooms, 3 Oct. 1983, lot 118; see also Alice Wilson Frothingham, Talavera Pottery, 1944, figs. 92-94 and pp. 101-103 for the vase in the collection of The Hispanic Society of America, illustrated together with engravings by Philips Galle after Stradanus, from which the decoration is derived. The present vase may have been inspired by engravings from the same series (cf. The Illustrated Bartsch, 56 (104: 12 & 24))

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