PROBABLY NAPLES, FIRST HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY

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A SOUTH ITALIAN MAIOLICA ALBARELLO
PROBABLY NAPLES, FIRST HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY
Painted with a bust-length portrait of a lady in profile to the left, wearing a yellow headdress, beaded necklace and a green dress with yellow and blue trim against a blue ground, a vertical label inscribed in blue AGELICA (?) to the left, the reverse with blue scrolling foliage, all between blue concentric bands and blue dash borders (hairline crack to neck, areas of chipping and glaze flaking to shoulder and lower body, chipping to footrim)
11 3/4 in. (29.8 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For a discussion of this group of vases and pharmacy jars, and their attribution to Naples, see Julia E. Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridge, 1995, p. 432, no. 463, where a vase bearing a profile portrait and very similar foliate decoration to the reverse is illustrated.

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