CIRCA 1855-1870

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A GINORI MAIOLICA PILGRIM BOTTLE AND A STOPPER
CIRCA 1855-1870
Decorated in the Urbino style with a continuous view of a siege of a fortress, flanked by satyr-masks, their horns forming loop handles
15¼ in. (38.7 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

The Boston Athenaeum, no. 30; Sotheby Park Bernet Inc., New York, 18 February 1977, lot 5 (as in the Urbino mid-16th century style).

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Lot Essay

Ginori copied this form and decoration directly from a 16th century Urbino original that was in the Real Galleria degli Uffizi from 1854 until 1855. For a further discussion and another example, see L. Frescobaldi Malenchini and O. Rucellai, The Revival of Italian Maiolica: Ginori and Cantagalli, Firenze, 2011, pp. 170-1, no. 6. Sold with thermoluminescence certificate N111m48, dated 7 September 2011 from Oxford Authentication, stating that the last firing was less than 200 years ago.

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