A VENICE MAIOLICA OVIFORM DRUG-JAR

CIRCA 1560-80, WORKSHOP OF DOMENEGO DA VENEZIA

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A VENICE MAIOLICA OVIFORM DRUG-JAR
CIRCA 1560-80, WORKSHOP OF DOMENEGO DA VENEZIA
Painted with a three-quarter length figure of a saint within an oval scroll-edged cartouche, on a blue ground with boldly scrolling foliage and flowers and Sgrafitto scrolls, between blue and yellow line rims
13¼ in. (33.6 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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