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17TH OR 18TH CENTURY, SICILIAN OR MONTELUPO
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AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED OVIFORM CISTERN
17TH OR 18TH CENTURY, SICILIAN OR MONTELUPO
With a short ribbed neck and blue rope-twist handles, the front of the body with ochre-berried green scrolling foliage between bands of ochre wave-ornament, the lower part pierced with an aperture for a tap, the reverse enigmatically inscribed I1S3 within a blue oval cartouche (large chip to footrim, tap lacking, small chip to neck, flaking to handles)
24¼ in. (61.5 cm.) high
17TH OR 18TH CENTURY, SICILIAN OR MONTELUPO
With a short ribbed neck and blue rope-twist handles, the front of the body with ochre-berried green scrolling foliage between bands of ochre wave-ornament, the lower part pierced with an aperture for a tap, the reverse enigmatically inscribed I1S3 within a blue oval cartouche (large chip to footrim, tap lacking, small chip to neck, flaking to handles)
24¼ in. (61.5 cm.) high
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium