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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.
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.