Lot 320
320
A PAIR OF VENICE MAIOLICA BOTTLE VASES
THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR (LOTS 320-326)
A PAIR OF VENICE MAIOLICA BOTTLE VASES

CIRCA 1560-80, WORKSHOP OF DOMENEGO DA VENEZIA

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A PAIR OF VENICE MAIOLICA BOTTLE VASES
CIRCA 1560-80, WORKSHOP OF DOMENEGO DA VENEZIA
Each painted in ochre, yellow, blue, green and manganese with two portraits within oval medallions, one with a gentleman on one side and a peasant on the other, the other with a woman wearing a hat and pearl earring on one side and a soldier on the other, reserved against a blue ground painted with stylised flowerheads, leaves, acanthus scrolls and highlighted with white Sgraffito scrollwork
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For a discussion of the work of Domenego da Venezia and several similar jars, see Julia E. Poole, Italian Maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Cambridge, 1995, pp. 414-419, nos. 445-448.

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