MID-16TH CENTURY, ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP

Details

A CASTELLI MAIOLICA SYRUP-JAR OF 'ORSINI-COLONNA' TYPE
MID-16TH CENTURY, ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP
The front with a yellow, blue and ochre dragon's head spout moulded with scales and joined to the neck with a support, flanked by two blue-ground petal-shaped panels, each painted with a bust-length portrait of a man wearing a brocaded yellow collar and green shirt, reserved on scrolling acanthus and an ochre ground, above a yellow-lined scrolled banner inscribed ·SY^o·de·acet^o·Citri· in blue gothic script, the reverse with blue scrolls around a strap handle, short hairline crack to neck, minor glaze flaking to body, spout, handle and rims, slight scratching to glaze
11 3/8 in. (28.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Taillemas Collection; sale Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, 13 May 1992, lot 4.

Literature

Vincenzo de Pompeis et al., Le Maioliche Cinquecentesche di Castelli, Pescara Exhibition Catalogue, Brescia, 1989, pp. C154-C155, no. 385.

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Lot Essay

See footnote to the previous lot. The characteristics of this jar fall into what Vincenzo de Pompeis proposed as a second stylistic grouping. The borders, ornament and portraits are particularly close to a jar in the Louvre illustrated by de Pompeis et al., ibid., p. C62 and p. C157, no. 393, and also by Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, p. 64, no. 251.

The inscription on the label indicates that the original contents of this jar were probably a syrup of lemon and vinegar.

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