A MONTELUPO ARMORIAL ALBARELLO

THIRD QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY

Details

A MONTELUPO ARMORIAL ALBARELLO
THIRD QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY
The front painted with a label named for - ARSINICHO - against a Palmetta Persiana ground reserved at the front with a coat-of-arms of a dragon in a goblet within an ochre escutcheon flanked by manganese letters I and C, between ochre and blue line and band borders (rim with chipping and restored chip, chipping to surface at shoulder and lower part with some restored areas, hairline crack through foot and lower part below R of inscription)
6 9/16 in. (16.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Ch. Damiron Collection, Lyon
M. Lucien Damiron Collection, sale Sotheby's, London, 11th March 1980, lot 51.

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Lot Essay

This albarello once held Arsenic. For the similar albarello in the Musée au Château, Nyon, see Rudolf E.A. Drey, Apothecary Jars, London, 1978, p. 35, fig. 7C. Two are illustrated by G.C. Bojani and F. Vossilla, Exhibition Catalogue, Capolavori di Maiolica della Collezione Strozzi Sacrati, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, May-October, Florence, 1998, p. 54, nos. 31-32.

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