THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A SMALL PORTRAIT TAZZA painted with a portrait of a bearded man half-turned to the left in a white plumed ochre cap, his shoulders draped in an ochre cloak, inscribed BASTISTA on a a ribbon on a blue ground, the underside with radiating green dashes between concentic blue bands, on a short spreading circular foot (slight cracks and chips, restoration to rim and footrim), circa 1530, perhaps Montelupo

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A SMALL PORTRAIT TAZZA painted with a portrait of a bearded man half-turned to the left in a white plumed ochre cap, his shoulders draped in an ochre cloak, inscribed BASTISTA on a a ribbon on a blue ground, the underside with radiating green dashes between concentic blue bands, on a short spreading circular foot (slight cracks and chips, restoration to rim and footrim), circa 1530, perhaps Montelupo
20cm. diam.

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