AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA 'BELLA DONNA' JAR

EARLY 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY NAPLES OR SOUTH ITALIAN

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AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA 'BELLA DONNA' JAR
EARLY 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY NAPLES OR SOUTH ITALIAN
Oviform, labeled vertically 'POLINIA' to the left of a bust-length portrait of a lady in profile wearing a ribbon-tied headdress and beaded necklace, set among trailing flowering vine, all between concentric cross-hatched and beaded bands
7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high

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Sold with thermoluminescence certificate N111k40 dated 23 September 2011 from Oxford Authentication, stating that the samples tested were last fired between 400 and 700 years ago.

For a discussion of this group of vases and pharmacy jars, and their attribution to Naples, see J.E. Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridge, 1995, p. 432, no. 463. For an albarello from this category, see Christie's, London, 16 November 2010, lot 1.