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A Sicilian maiolica bottle-flask and an armorial albarello
the flask, globular, painted with a potrait of a young man, possibly a saint, within a roundel, the ground painted with flowers and foliage below a tapering neck and flared rim -- 8½in. (21.6cm.) high, late 17th/18th century (extensively damaged and repaired); the cylindrical albarello painted with a coat-of-arms below a crown within an oval panel on a ground of flowers and foliage -- 7in. (17.8cm.) high (extensively cracked, the rim with some sections lacking)
See front cover illustration (2)
the flask, globular, painted with a potrait of a young man, possibly a saint, within a roundel, the ground painted with flowers and foliage below a tapering neck and flared rim -- 8½in. (21.6cm.) high, late 17th/18th century (extensively damaged and repaired); the cylindrical albarello painted with a coat-of-arms below a crown within an oval panel on a ground of flowers and foliage -- 7in. (17.8cm.) high (extensively cracked, the rim with some sections lacking)
See front cover illustration (2)