FLASK
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.