Important Renaissance Maiolica

thu 1 October 2015
Live auction 46
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ORCIOLO BIANSATO

€ 18.000 / 25.000
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TWO-HANDLED APOTHECARY JAR (ORCIOLO)

FLORENTINE AREA, MONTELUPO, 1420–30

Earthenware, covered with a creamy-white glaze and painted in zaffera blue (relief cobalt and lead blue) and manganese

H. 21.9 cm; maximum width 19 cm; mouth diam. 9.7 cm; foot diam. 10.5 cm

 

Below the handle, ‘x’ and ‘n’ workshop marks with a blue dot on one side and a cross on the other side