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An early Faenza maiolica 'Famiglia Gotica' two-handled albarello circa 1470-80
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- the base inscribed in ink with old collector's mark D.153
- 21cm., 8 1/4 in.
painted in dark-blue, ochre and copper-green, either side with a panel containing two sunflowers in opposite corners, issuing from two diagonally placed leaves in the centre and blue tendrils, flanked by blue scroll borders, the shoulder with alternating blue and ochre flourishes and the foot with oblique dashes in manganese, the handles with manganese and green dashes
Provenance
Guy G. Hannaford Collection, Rome;
his sale, Sotheby's Florence, 17th October 1969, lot 20
his sale, Sotheby's Florence, 17th October 1969, lot 20
Literature
Mario Bellini & Giovanni Conti, Maioliche Italiane del Rinascimento, Milan 1964, p.94B (illustrated).
Catalogue Note
Sold with a Thermoluminescence Analysis Report from Oxford Authentication Ltd., dated 16th March 2005, confirming the date of last firing between 400 and 700 years ago.