A PAIR OF DERUTA MAIOLICA WAISTED CYLINDRICAL ALBARELLI
CIRCA 1520-60, VARIOUS INCISED NUMERALS AND SYMBOLS TO BASES
Each painted with a bust-length portrait of a blackamoor within a circular cartouche below a label, one inscribed RVCARO.BORR and the other DIA.PFNIDIO, reserved against a blue ground decorated with grotteschi, within a robbiana, the reverse with two blue trailing ribbons (one with slight cracking to neck, minor glaze chipping)
The highest 9 in. (22.8 cm.) high
A PAIR OF DERUTA MAIOLICA WAISTED CYLINDRICAL ALBARELLI
CIRCA 1520-60, VARIOUS INCISED NUMERALS AND SYMBOLS TO BASES
Each painted with a bust-length portrait of a blackamoor within a circular cartouche below a label, one inscribed RVCARO.BORR and the other DIA.PFNIDIO, reserved against a blue ground decorated with grotteschi, within a robbiana, the reverse with two blue trailing ribbons (one with slight cracking to neck, minor glaze chipping)
The highest 9 in. (22.8 cm.) high
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