A PAIR OF VENICE BLUE-GROUND OVIFORM JARS painted in the workshop of Maestro Domenico with a portrait medallion of a man and a woman and with three-quarter length portraits of St. Francis and St. Anthony reserved on a vibrant blue ground with scrolling foliage and flowers between yellow line rims (very minor glaze flaking to rims), circa 1570 26cm. high (2)
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A PAIR OF VENICE BLUE-GROUND OVIFORM JARS painted in the workshop of Maestro Domenico with a portrait medallion of a man and a woman and with three-quarter length portraits of St. Francis and St. Anthony reserved on a vibrant blue ground with scrolling foliage and flowers between yellow line rims (very minor glaze flaking to rims), circa 1570 26cm. high (2)
Lot Essay
Cf. Wendy M. Watson, Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection, pp.172-173