1580-1620

Details

Thirteen various small Antwerp maiolica albarelli or gallipots
1580-1620
Comprising: five decorated with rings; one with stylised motifs; one fragment with stylised motifs; one globular fragment with foliage; one with vertical lines; four white, in sizes (damages)
3-9.2 cm. high (13)

Provenance

Archaeological find, Prinsenstraat 30, Antwerpen.
Sale Collection Frans Claes, 'De Gulden Spoor', auction house Gruter, Antwerp, 27 November-1 December 1933, lot 1355.

Special notice

Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

Lot Essay

See C. Dumortier, Céramique de la Renaissance à Anvers, Bruxelles, 2002, ill. 19, p. 41 for related gallipots excavated in the Nationale straat, Antwerp, in the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels.
Frans Claes (1860-1933) was the curator of the Steen and Vleeshuis
Museums, Antwerp.

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