AN HISPANO-MORESQUE ALBARELLO
Lot 94Property from the Collection of Paul W. Doll, Jr.

AN HISPANO-MORESQUE ALBARELLO

1435-1460, PATERNA OR MANISES

Closed20 October 2020

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AN HISPANO-MORESQUE ALBARELLO
1435-1460, PATERNA OR MANISES
Decorated in copper luster and cobalt blue, the slightly flaring cylindrical neck with concentric banding, similar banding separating the drug jar into two registers, each similarly decorated with stylized plants on a 'parsley' ground
11 ¾ in. (30 cm.) high, 5 ¼ in. (13.5 cm.) diameter, overall

George and Florence Blumenthal, New York.
Bequest of George Blumenthal to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1941 (41.190.112).
Acquired from the museum in June 2007 along with a French medieval ivory tabernacle leaf circa 1300, the two pieces in exchange for a 14th century French marble canopy in Mr. Doll's collection.


Specialist note

See Anthony Ray, Spanish Pottery 1248-1898, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2000, pp. 46-47, 66 and 80 for comparable examples.