Important Antique Italian Maiolica Vase With Four Handles - Christie's Provenance
Winning Bid $490.00
Bid History 25 Bids
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Location: BRG-Greenwich
Item #: 171321
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Item Description
Important antique Italian sgraffito ware, pilgrim bottle. Florentine, early 15th century.
This sensatiuonal ceramic pilgrim bottle has four moulded handles all decorated with figural mask imagery. Standing on an unglazed foot ring rising up to the globular body with decorative glazed foliate imagery seen in relief with green and amber glaze over a darker tan glazed body.
There are three small drilled holes to the underfoot along with a series of numbers, likely a collection number, written in red underfoot.
8 1/2"H x 7"W
Provenance: Christie's Auction House Sale #7944 - Important Italian Maiolica from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections (Part II) of June 1, 1994
Condition: There are areas of wear to the surface with scraches and minute hairlines to the handles. There are also areas of loss to glaze and nics and discoloring to the mouth rim. There are three small drilled holes underfoot which may have been made for a Thermoluminesence test but cannot be confirmed and there is no test information with the item. There is wear but mostly commensurate with age and the item displays magnificently.
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