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A CASTEL DURANTE MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED OVIFORM DRUG-JAR
Lot 6

A CASTEL DURANTE MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED OVIFORM DRUG-JAR

CIRCA 1580

Closed3 June 2015

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A CASTEL DURANTE MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED OVIFORM DRUG-JAR
CIRCA 1580
With green serpent handles and grotesque mask terminals, painted with Fortune balanced on a dolphin holding a billowing sail above a banner inscribed SVMAC, the ground reserved with military and musical trophies (minor chipping, some losses to serpent, slight glaze flaking)
7 ¼ in. (18.3 cm.) high

Specialist note

Jeanne Giacomotti illustrates a series of drug-jars of this type, see Catalogue des majoliques des Musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, nos. 979-992 and no. 989 for an example of this form. A pair of bottle-vases of this type were sold in these Rooms on 2 June 2009, lot 13.

This albarello is named for Sumac, a flowering plant of which the berries were used for a variety of medicinal purposes.