ITALIAN MAIOLICA APOTHECARY ALBARELLO
MONTELUPO, CIRCA 1570
£800
Auction: 22 October 2013 at 18:00 BST
Description
slightly incurving to the waist with narrow sloping band up to the rim and foot, painted in light and dark blue, yellow, ochre, purple, white and black, with a cartouche within a stigmata and a cross (the arms of the Franciscan order), all on a ground of scrolling leaves half filled, with banding above the foot and on the shoulder, a thin band of parallel line edging the shoulder
Dimensions
9cm diam, 16cm high
Footnote
Provenance:
In the collection of the family of the present owners since the late 19th / early 20th century. Entries in the family archives suggest that maiolica was acquired between 1894 and 1916 from three different sources: from G. Donaldson in 1894 (with two items bought from the Spitzer Collection) in 1896 and in 1897; from H.A. Peto in 1899 and from S.M. Crossley in 1908 and in November 1916.
Note:
See Rudolf Drey, Apothecary Jars, London, 1978, cat.8C, p.36, for a spouted jar in a private collection displaying the same arms and decoration