Live Auction 7821The Barratt Collection - from Crowe Hall, Bath
A PAIR OF ITALIAN MAIOLICA ALBARELLI
Lot 112

A PAIR OF ITALIAN MAIOLICA ALBARELLI

ONE DATED 1566(?), PROBABLY CASTELDURANTE

Closed16 December 2010

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN MAIOLICA ALBARELLI
ONE DATED 1566(?), PROBABLY CASTELDURANTE
Named for .EL:GENMIS and PHILOIO.R.OM on blue rectangular labels within a green-ground a trophei cartouche on a blue-ground of similar martial trophies, the first with a tablet inscribed with the date '1566', the reverse of each with scrolling stylised blue foliage, within yellow and ochre lined rims, minor rim chipping, cracking, crazing and staining
7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

A similar example sold Christie's London, 11 March 1996, lot 118. An example dated 1569 in the collection of the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, is discussed in Elena Ivanova, Il secolo d'oro della maiolica, Ceramica italiana dei secoli XV-XVI dalla raccolta del Museo Statale dell'Ermitage, Milan, 2003, p. 113, no. 101.