EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A PAVIA MANGANESE-GROUND EWER AND TWO PLATES
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Each painted with a tower in a mountainous landscape against a marbled manganese ground reserved with yellow and blue striations
The ewer 7 1/8 in. (18.2 cm.) high; the plates 9 in. (22.9 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

For a ewer of different form with related decoration, see Elena Pelizzoni, Marica Forni and Sergio Nepoti, La Maiolica di Pavia tra Seicento e Settecento Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Catalogue (Milan, 1997), p. 375, no. 116. For a shallow bowl painted with a related design to the plates, see Julia Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, 1995), p. 496, no. 539.

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