Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A CALTAGIRONE MAIOLICA LARGE OVIFORM ALBARELLO
Lot 43 THE PROPERTY OF A FLORENTINE COLLECTOR

A CALTAGIRONE MAIOLICA LARGE OVIFORM ALBARELLO

CIRCA 1700

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 2,375

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A CALTAGIRONE MAIOLICA LARGE OVIFORM ALBARELLO
CIRCA 1700
Painted with white and blue flowerheads issuing from scrolling ochre and green branches, reserved on a blue ground decorated with white Sgraffito scrolls (short hairline crack to neck, minor cracking to body, minor glaze flaking to neck)
14¼ in. (38.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a similar albarello see Antonino Ragona, La maiolica siciliana dalle origini all'ottocento, Palermo, 1986, p. 364, no. 162,