CIRCA 1600, ATTRIBUTED TO LAZZARO OR PANTALEO WORKSHOP

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A Palermo maiolica waisted albarello
CIRCA 1600, ATTRIBUTED TO LAZZARO OR PANTALEO WORKSHOP
Painted in vivid yellow, green, blue, ochre, dark blue and light blue, depicting the frontal Saint Apollonia, holding a palm frond in her left and tongs with a tooth in her right hand, within an oval panel of scrolls, to the reverse trophies with a griffin head and a tablet bearing the inscription SPQP, between scrolling leaf and guilloche pattern bands (chip to the footrim)
30 cm. high

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Lot Essay

Saint Apollonia suffered martyrdom in Alexandria in the third century A.D. by having all her teeth broken by her tormentors before she chose to be burned alive rather than to repeat impious words. She is popularly invoked against toothache because of the torments she had to endure and represented in art with pincers in which a tooth is held.

For similar examples see S. Glaser Majolika. Die italienischen Fayencen im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, 2000, p. 174, no. 154; R.E.A. Drey, Apothecary Jars, London, 1978, p. 70, p. 68 ill. 29 c; B. Klesse, Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln, Majolika, Köln, 1966, p. 175, ill. 328-329.

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