A PAIR OF DERUTA MAIOLICA WAISTED CYLINDRICAL ALBARELLI
A PAIR OF DERUTA MAIOLICA WAISTED CYLINDRICAL ALBARELLI

CIRCA 1520-60, VARIOUS INCISED NUMERALS AND SYMBOLS TO BASES

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A PAIR OF DERUTA MAIOLICA WAISTED CYLINDRICAL ALBARELLI
CIRCA 1520-60, VARIOUS INCISED NUMERALS AND SYMBOLS TO BASES
Each painted with a bust-length portrait of a blackamoor within a circular cartouche below a label, one inscribed RVCARO.BORR and the other DIA.PFNIDIO, reserved against a blue ground decorated with grotteschi, within a robbiana, the reverse with two blue trailing ribbons (one with slight cracking to neck, minor glaze chipping)
The highest 9 in. (22.8 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A similar drug-jar is illustrated by Rudolf E.A. Drey, Apothecary Jars, London, 1978, p. 41 no. 12A.

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