ITALIAN MAIOLICA ALBARELLO
PALERMO, SICILY, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Auction: 30 March 2011 at 12:00 BST
£1,250
Description
of waisted form with a profile portrait of a man wearing a turban within a scrolled cartouche with scrolling leaves above and below and twisted rope on the lower and upper shoulders
Dimensions
25.5cm high
Footnote
Note:
See cats 1319 and 1325, 'Les majoliques des Musees nationaux', Jeanne Giacomotti, Paris 1974, for very similar dated pieces.