Important Renaissance Maiolica

thu 1 October 2015
Live auction 46
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€ 30.000 / 40.000
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CASTELLI, ORAZIO POMPEI, c.1550

Earthenware, painted in cobalt blue, copper green, yellow, orange-yellow, manganese, and tin white

H. 34 cm; mouth diam. 6.7 cm; foot diam. 16.5 cm

Beneath the base, stamp ‘1959’, stamp ‘1523’, printed label ‘GALL. BELLINI’, and label hand-written in ink ‘Faenza 1500’; on the neck, round label printed ‘ART TREASURES EXHIBITION MUSEUM’

On the body, in a cartouche, Latin proverb ‘.OdIE.MICHI.. / HOC..OPUS.. HORATII / CRAS. TIBI..’; down below, the name of the preparation in Gothic script ‘Aqua.de.planta’

 

This work has been notified according to the Ministerial Decree no. 42/2004.