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A FAENZA GLOBULAR DRUG-JAR
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A FAENZA GLOBULAR DRUG-JAR

MID-16TH CENTURY

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A FAENZA GLOBULAR DRUG-JAR
MID-16TH CENTURY
Of a quartieri type, painted with Venus (?) holding a cornucopia beside Cupid in a mountainous landscape within a robbiana against a geometric panelled ground with scrolling foliage, grotesques, acanthus leaves and dolphins, the upper part with a label inscribed · ellettuarium · dela · ualetedur (?) in blue Gothic script, the cylindrical neck with a continuous garland of foliage, yellow band and ochre line rims (chip to rim and footrim, some wear to rims)
13 in. (33 cm.) high
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拍品专文

For an a quartieri jar of the same form (the central medallion with a warrior) and a discussion of the a quartieri style, see Wendy M. Watson, 'Italian Renaissance Maiolica, from the William A. Clark Collection' Corcoran Gallery of Art and Mount Holyoke College Art Museum Exhibition Catalogue (London, 1986), pp. 52-53, no. 13. Another example is illustrated by Rudolf Drey, Apothecary Jars (London, 1978), p. 51, pl. 19c, and other examples in the Musée du Louvre by J. Chompret, Répertoire de la Majolique Italienne (Paris, 1949), p. 74, figs. 577-579.