Lot 96
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A MONTELUPO MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED DRY-DRUG JAR
A MONTELUPO MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED DRY-DRUG JAR
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A MONTELUPO MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED DRY-DRUG JAR

EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A MONTELUPO MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED DRY-DRUG JAR
EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Of bulbous form flanked by strap handles painted in green above the initials 'DG', the body painted in ochre and green with foliate scrolls on a blue background, an untitled cartouche at center
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high
Provenance
With Gallery Luigi Bellini, no. 1417, Florence, Italy, 8 July 1999.

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Lot Essay

A Montelupo jar of the same form also with initials below each handle is in the Victoria & Albert Museum (no. 375-1889). Also compare the example sold Christie's, London, 30 November 2006, lot 1864 and W.M. Watson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, The Howard I. and Janet H. Stein Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2001, p. 65.

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