Lot 235
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A FAENZA MAIOLICA GLOBULAR ALBARELLO
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE LOMBARD COLLECTION LOTS 233-254
A FAENZA MAIOLICA GLOBULAR ALBARELLO

MID-16TH CENTURY

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A FAENZA MAIOLICA GLOBULAR ALBARELLO
MID-16TH CENTURY
Painted with a portrait of a bearded man in profile to the left, within a medallion inscribed MARIO·, above a label inscribed syo.de fsopo: (?), against a panelled ground with diagonal bands of scrolling foliage and acanthus leaves on green, blue and ochre grounds
7 ¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For other Faenza albarelli, bottles and syrup-jars painted with named portraits of figures from Classical history, mythology and the Bible, see Rudolf E.A Drey, Apothecary Jars, London, 1978, pp. 50-53 and Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des Musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, pp. 313-316.

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