CIRCA 1570

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A Casteldurante maiolica dated waisted albarello
CIRCA 1570
Painted in yellow, green, blue and ochre, with a horizontal rectangular yellow band within an oval cartouche, inscribed EL.ELESCOPH above the face of a large winged amorino, and under a Trofei ornaments, surrounded by fruiting orange tree branches, dated 1569 underneath the amorino and to the reverse between the branches
21.3 cm. high

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Lot Essay

EL.ELESCOPH for 'The Bishop's electuary' a purgative electuary.
See J. Giacomotti, Les majoliques des Musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, p. 317, nr. 972, ill. p. 318 for a related albarello with similar date.
Accompanying this lot is a thermoluminescence certificate N106a35 from Oxford Authentication Ltd, dated 7 March 2006, stating that the samples tested were last fired between 400 and 700 years ago.

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