A DERUTA ARMORIAL SYRUP-JAR

CIRCA 1520

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A DERUTA ARMORIAL SYRUP-JAR
CIRCA 1520
Of bulbous form with a narrow waisted neck, joined double-strap handle and curved square-section spout, painted with a label named for ·A·CITRACHA· against a ground of scrolling blue foliate stems reserved with a winged putto's head at the spout and a coat-of-arms below, on a waisted circular foot (restoration to tip of spout, lower terminal of handle with minute flake to glaze)
9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

See Rudolf E.A. Drey, Apothecary Jars, London, 1978, p. 214, where he notes citrace; citraggine or citrago was a lemon-balm. For two other examples of the same form in Gillet Collection, see C. Fiocco, et al., Majoliques Italiennes du Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Lyon, Dijon, 2001, pp. 98-99, nos. 62-63; the former is also illustrated by Drey, ibid., p. 43, no. 14a.

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