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A PESARO (FABBRICA IGNAZIO CALLEGARI) MAIOLICA JUG
Lot 327

A PESARO (FABBRICA IGNAZIO CALLEGARI) MAIOLICA JUG

FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, MANGANESE PAINTED N: 1: / C. MARK (PARTIALLY OBSCURED)

Closed25 February 2014

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A PESARO (FABBRICA IGNAZIO CALLEGARI) MAIOLICA JUG
FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, MANGANESE PAINTED N: 1: / C. MARK (PARTIALLY OBSCURED)
With a pinched spout and bifurcated strap handle, painted in polychrome and inscribed in Greek with a drinking verse within a roundel below scrolls and palmettes, between bouquets of brightly coloured flowers and foliage, on a circular foot
9.1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) high

Specialist note

See Grazia Biscontini Ugolini, Ceramiche Pesaresi dal XVIII al XX secolo (Bologna, 1986), p. 121, pl. 105 and p. 122, p. 106 for a jug with the same inscription and by a similar hand, attributed to Pesaro (Fabbrica Ignazio Callegari).

See also the two examples sold in these Rooms, 27 February 2003, lots 113 and 114

This verse is written in colloquial 'Romaic' Greek, used predominantly by Greek-speakers of the Diaspora, mainly from the Old Ottoman Empire, and translates loosely as 'The Turks do not drink wine. It is drunk by the (Romaic) Greeks. It is drunk by impoverished folk, to forget their debts'.