Lot Essay
See the pair of similarly decorated armorial albarelli illustrated by Mario Bellini and Giovanni Conti, Maioliche Italiane del Rinascimento (Milan, 1964), p. 173, fig. D.
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LATE 16TH CENTURY
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A TRAPANI MAIOLICA ARMORIAL ALBARELLO
LATE 16TH CENTURY
Of waisted cylindrical form, painted with a coat-of-arms of an extended arm holding three flowers within a scrolling escutcheon above a blank rectangular label, the blue-ground reverse reserved with scrolling ochre-lined ribbons issuing berries, within blue band rims (hairline cracks to upper rim, minor flaking to glaze, overall glaze crazing)
11 in. (28 cm.) high
LATE 16TH CENTURY
Of waisted cylindrical form, painted with a coat-of-arms of an extended arm holding three flowers within a scrolling escutcheon above a blank rectangular label, the blue-ground reverse reserved with scrolling ochre-lined ribbons issuing berries, within blue band rims (hairline cracks to upper rim, minor flaking to glaze, overall glaze crazing)
11 in. (28 cm.) high
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