CIRCA 1700

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A TALAVERA BLUE AND WHITE LARGE GLOBULAR JAR
CIRCA 1700
Painted with a hunting scene in a continuous mountainous wooded landscape, each side with a huntsman on horseback spearing a leopard, divided by trees and a prancing a bull on each side, the borders above and below with scrolling foliage between lines, with a short neck and bulbous rim (slight chipping to rims with minor small old repairs, chip to underside of footrim, some wear and scratching to surface)
15 13/16 in. (40.2 cm.) high

Provenance

P. Fontana Collection, no. 59306 (inside of neck with red inventory number).

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Lot Essay

A jar of similar form and decoration in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated by Anthony Ray, Spanish Pottery 1248-1898 (London, 2000), p. 187, no. 346 (and col. pl. 42). The V&A example is decorated with very similar figures on horseback, one of which is holding a falcon, and Ray suggests the graphic source could have been engravings illustrating the art of of falconry. The similarity between the horse on the jar and the horse on the left in Antonio Tempesta's engraving of a leopard hunt shown above suggests that a combination of sources could have been used. Another jar of the same form painted with a large hound, is in the Museo Arqueologico Nacional, Madrid, and is illustrated by Christian Feit, 'Talavera' Keramos No. 84, April 1979, p. 114, fig 26.

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