AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ALBARELLO
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AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ALBARELLO

SECOND HALF 15TH CENTURY, PROBABLY PESARO

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AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ALBARELLO
SECOND HALF 15TH CENTURY, PROBABLY PESARO
Of slighly waisted cylindrical form, the mouth and shoulder with concentric bands of blue and ochre stripes and of a vine, the body with briony flowers within green, black and ochre trellis
12¾ in. (32.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Kann Collection, gift in 1931 (as Faenza, 15th century)
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Lot Essay

See Andrea Ciaroni, Maioliche dell Quattrocento a Pesaro, Frammenti
di Storia dell'arte ceramica dalla bottega dei Fedeli
, p. 60, no. 70 for new scholarship identifying albarelli of the form and decoration of the present example as most likely having been made at Pesaro; also Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, pp. 32 - 33, nos. 100 - 110 and The Robert Strauss Collection of Italian Maiolica, Christie's, London, 21 June 1976, lot 12 and 13 for other examples previously attributed to Faenza.

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