Lot Essay
Cf. Bernard Rackham, op. cit., pl. 151, no. 937 and 938 for pharmacy-jars but of similar type, one with a portrait of a man wearing a turban
THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN
A FAENZA GLOBULAR PHARMACY-JAR named for R.C de Cosoli in blue Gothic script on a scrolling ribbon beneath a circular portrait medallion of a bearded man to the left wearing a yellow and ochre turban, on an a quartieri ground of blue and orange bands reserved with medallions of flowerheads divided by foliage and with a band of stiff leaves between yellow and ochre bands (minor rim flaking and chips to footrim), circa 1550
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A FAENZA GLOBULAR PHARMACY-JAR named for R.C de Cosoli in blue Gothic script on a scrolling ribbon beneath a circular portrait medallion of a bearded man to the left wearing a yellow and ochre turban, on an a quartieri ground of blue and orange bands reserved with medallions of flowerheads divided by foliage and with a band of stiff leaves between yellow and ochre bands (minor rim flaking and chips to footrim), circa 1550
20.5cm. high
20.5cm. high