Lot 13
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A PAIR OF CASTEL DURANTE MAIOLICA GLOBULAR APOTHECARY BOTTLES
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A PAIR OF CASTEL DURANTE MAIOLICA GLOBULAR APOTHECARY BOTTLES

1579 AND CIRCA 1580

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A PAIR OF CASTEL DURANTE MAIOLICA GLOBULAR APOTHECARY BOTTLES
1579 AND CIRCA 1580
Each painted with Venus riding a dolphin while holding a billowing sail, one named for ·A·D·PORTVLAC· and dated 1579, the other ·A·D·LANBRV· and SPQR on a banner, the dark-blue ground with sgraffito scrolls decorated with ochre and blue trophies and scrolls within ochre line rims (slight rim chipping, the first broken through and restuck with associated losses, the second with neck restuck, chipping to footrim, crack to body and short hairline crack to rim)
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high (2)
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Lot Essay

A pair of albarelli from the same series formerly in the Sackler Collection were sold by Christie's New York on 6 October 1993, lot 44. For a discussion of the examples in the Louvre see Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux (Paris, 1974), nos. 979-992.

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