A TUSCAN ARMORIAL SYRUP-JAR

FIRST HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY, FLORENCE OR MONTELUPO

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A TUSCAN ARMORIAL SYRUP-JAR
FIRST HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY, FLORENCE OR MONTELUPO
Oviform with a waisted neck and strap handle, the front applied with a support wrapped around the short straight spout, painted in yellow, ochre, blue turquoise and manganese, the front with a coat-of-arms, the ground of scrolling foliage reserved with a vertical white panel around the handle, inscribed with a b below the lower terminal (chip to spout, crack from foot through body to left of handle, footrim with very slight chipping, minor flaking to glaze on handle, rim, spout and footrim)
8½ in. (21.7 cm.) high

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Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 26th April 1983, lot 82.

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See Galeazzo Cora, Storia della maiolica di Firenze e del contado, Secoli XIV e XV, Florence, 1973, p. 469, pl. 219c, for an earlier two-handled jar with related Gothic foliage decoration and the same left-hand coat-of-arms as seen on the present lot. Another earlier jar, similar to that illustrated by Cora, is illustrated by Jörg Rasmussen, Italian Majolica in the Robert Lehman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1989, pp. 22-23, where he mentions both the Cora example and the present lot. The coat-of-arms has not yet been identified, and Rasmussen pointed out that Falke had called it a Phantasiewappen, or imaginary coat-of-arms, derived from Gothic silk patterns. The present lot appears to bear an impaled version of the arms, and stylistically it appears to be slightly later than the two jars mentioned above, suggesting that the coat-of-arms was not a fantasy. For a jug with related decoration, attributed to Montelupo, see Fausto Berti, Il Museo della Ceramica di Montelupo, Storia, Tecnologia, Collezioni, Florence, 2008, p. 315, fig. 40h.