Live Auction 7731Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
AN URBINO MAIOLICA PEWTER-MOUNTED OVIFORM JUG AND COVER
Lot 14

AN URBINO MAIOLICA PEWTER-MOUNTED OVIFORM JUG AND COVER

CIRCA 1550, PROBABLY FONTANA WORKSHOP

Closed2 June 2009

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GBP 2,250

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AN URBINO MAIOLICA PEWTER-MOUNTED OVIFORM JUG AND COVER
CIRCA 1550, PROBABLY FONTANA WORKSHOP
With a pinched spout, painted with a woman kneeling woman in prayer by a chalice on an altar, before a continuous wooded landscape, the domed cover attached to the handle with a hinged petwer mount (damages and restoration)
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high overall

Specialist note

For a similar jug attributed to the Fontana workshop in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Brunswick, see Johanna Lessmann, Italienische Maiolika (Brunswick, 1979), p. 202, cat. 192.