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See Bernard Rackham, The Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London, 1977, vol. II, pl. 158, cat. no. 979 for a Venetian drug-pot with similar portrait roundels.
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CIRCA 1560, POSSIBLY THE WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO DOMENICO
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TWO ITALIAN (VENICE) MAIOLICA BOTTLE VASES
CIRCA 1560, POSSIBLY THE WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO DOMENICO
Each painted in colors with portraits, one of a Turkish sultan and a woman, the other with a woman wearing a pearl earring and a gentleman, reserved within circular medallions against a foliate scroll blue ground
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1560, POSSIBLY THE WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO DOMENICO
Each painted in colors with portraits, one of a Turkish sultan and a woman, the other with a woman wearing a pearl earring and a gentleman, reserved within circular medallions against a foliate scroll blue ground
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high (2)