Live Auction 10397Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A VENICE MAIOLICA LARGE ISTORIATO STORAGE-JAR
Lot 15 THE PROPERTY OF A COLLECTOR

A VENICE MAIOLICA LARGE ISTORIATO STORAGE-JAR

CIRCA 1560-70, WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO DOMENEGO DA VENEZIA

Closed3 June 2015

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GBP 17,500

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A VENICE MAIOLICA LARGE ISTORIATO STORAGE-JAR
CIRCA 1560-70, WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO DOMENEGO DA VENEZIA
Of cylindrical form, painted with a warrior on a rearing stallion, named in blue gothic script for Mostard on an elaborate ochre-ground label flanked by a figure carrying a basket of fruit and another with a barrel on his back, the reverse with a running hound (some faint hairline cracks and glaze cracks, slight chipping and glaze losses to footrim)
13 ½ in. (34.2 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a related mustard jar in the British Museum, see Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, a Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 2009, pp. 96-98.

Other large examples from the same workshop are in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Brunswick, see Johanna Lessmann, Italienische Majolika, Brunswick, 1979, pp. 481-483, nos. 782-784; in Milan, see Raffaella Ausenda (ed.), Musei e Gallerie di Milano, Museo d'Arti Applicate, le Ceramiche, Milan, 2000, Vol. I, no. 293 and in the Museum fur Künst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, see Rudolf Drey, Apothecary Jars, London, 1978, p. 64, no. 27A.

A pair of jars of similar form but different decoration was sold by Christie's New York on 17 May 2005, lot 294.