17TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY LIGURIAN

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AN ITALIAN OVIFORM CISTERN
17TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY LIGURIAN
With everted neck, two lug handles, moulded with a central band and pierced, the lower part pierced for a tap, painted in blue, green, yellow, ochre and brown with two bands of figures on horseback and on foot with hounds, hunting and resting and a warrior in continous landscapes before distant buildings and ships divided by a band of birds and animals among flowers and foliage (broken in several places, repaired and filled, some scratching to glaze)
12½ in. (32 cm.) high

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拍品专文

For a blue and white cistern of similar type see Julia Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipwared in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, (Cambridge, 1995), p. 480, no. 520, and also Bernard Rackham, Italian Maiolica (London, 1952), pl. 84, where he attributes it to Savona.