Live Auction 1170Au Bord de la Mer Private Collections from St Tropez, Cap d'Antibes & A Swiss Villa
AN HISPANO-MORESQUE RUBY-LUSTRE AND BLUE FOUR-HANDLED BALUSTER VASE
Lot 275

AN HISPANO-MORESQUE RUBY-LUSTRE AND BLUE FOUR-HANDLED BALUSTER VASE

CIRCA 1400-1450, PROBABLY VALENCIA, MANISES, INCISED HS A (?) MARKS

Closed17 April 2013

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GBP 43,750

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AN HISPANO-MORESQUE RUBY-LUSTRE AND BLUE FOUR-HANDLED BALUSTER VASE
CIRCA 1400-1450, PROBABLY VALENCIA, MANISES, INCISED HS A (?) MARKS
With four loop handles, painted and lustred with tapering panels of herringbone pattern in blue and ruby lustre alternating with panels of debased Kufic script reserved against scrolls and below lappet ornament, the interior of the neck with a band of scrolls, on a spreading foot, spreading hairline cracks to lower body, small associated losses, minor chipping to rims, hairline crack to rim, slight glaze flaking
7½ in. (19 cm.) high

Specialist note

The underside with red enamel inventory no. 610.

For a similar vase with debased Kufic script see A. van de Put, Hispano-Moresque Ware of the XV. Century, London, 1904, fig. 6, where it was recorded as being in the collection of F.D. Godman.