A Hispano-Moresque lustre pottery albarello or drug jar, Valencia, probably Manises, 15th century

decorated with long palm leaves in a coppery lustre over a cobalt blue glaze

Ex- Collection John Philip Kassebaum, Honorary Curator of Ceramics, Helen Foreman Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas

In overall good condition, some restoration with associated overpainting particularly around the rim and shoulder, a minor chip to surface on shoulder, old collection label to base, as viewed.
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A number of jars with comparable form and decoration are known, including examples in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Ray 2000, nos.168-169, and 195-196, colour plates 18 and 24), and others in the British Museum, London, the Cloisters Collection, New York, the Museo Capodimonte, Naples, and the Instituto Valencia de Don Juan, Madrid.