CIRCA 1560, WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO DOMENEGO DA VENEZIA

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A VENICE VASO A PALLA
CIRCA 1560, WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO DOMENEGO DA VENEZIA
With a globular body and short waisted neck, one side painted with two warriors standing supporting a cartouche enclosing an oval shield with the arms per fess, in chief three busts, a helmeted Roman soldier between two civilians, in base or three broken lances gules with the letters M L over R beneath a band, the other side with a portrait of a bearded warrior in a plumed helmet within a robbiana cartouche, on a blue ground with sgraffito white scrolls and scrolling coloured foliage scrolls issuing fruit, flowers and acorns and one with a beast's head between blue line and yellow band borders (rim with restored section approx 6 in. long and 1¼ in. deep, base just above foot broken and repaired extending into lower part of portrait with an area of re-touching and repaired crack extending across body of vase)
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

See Julia Poole, Italian Maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambridge 1995), p. 414, no. 445, for a jar with the same arms supported by female figures. Poole suggests that the Fitzwilliam example is of a quality that might have been executed by Maestro Domenego himself, and it is very probable that the present lot was also decorated by the master. A spouted pharmacy jar with the same arms, which is in a continental private collection, is also mentioned.

A vaso a palla of similar size and form painted with two portraits was sold in these Rooms on 6th December 2004, lot 335.

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