A Pair of Faenza maiolica armorial wet drug jars, circa 1525Each decorated with a coat of arms of a tree within an escutcheon, possibly that of the Girelli family, and a ground of scrolling foliage and flowers, the wide strap handles each set over the letter T in blue, 23cm high (one albarello extensively retouched, the other with patches of retouching to the glaze) (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationAnother wet drug jar from the same pharmacy previously in the Pringsheim collection is published by Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux (1974), p. 71, fig. 282, where the author attributes the Stemma to the Roman Celsi family.A related albarello from the same pharmacy was in the collection of Fernand Adda, published by B. Rackham, Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica, London (1959), plate 117, cat.no. 289; the author tentatively attributes the coat of arms to the Florentine family, Alberighi.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A Faenza maiolica Albarello, early 16th centuryDecorated with alternating panels with foliate scrollwork, set with a profile portrait of a soldier above a scrolling drug label reading 'PiTT.DE.REUBARO, 6 inches high 15cm high (typical minimal chips)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationREUBARO is related to rhubarb, from the Italian reubarbaro or rhabarbarum; see Rudolf Drey, Apothecary Jars (1978), p.226.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A small Faenza maiolica Albarello, 16th centuryDecorated with a profile portrait of a man in Turkish dress above a scrolling drug label in gothic script reading 'HO.DE.BERBERIS' 15cm high incised 'A' to the terracotta base (chip to the rim, some glaze losses)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Two Faenza maiolica albarelli, one dated 1555, the other of similar dateEach decorated in two horizontal sections in ochre and blue with sgraffito scrollwork and trophies serving as the background for a portrait of a man in Turkish dress within an oak-leaf cartouche over a pharmacy label reading CONFETIO DE CINAM (sic), and a portrait of a bearded classical figure with the name banner HAIF (?) within the same oak-leaf cartouche above a drug label reading TRIFERA MAGNA, respectively, 25cm high (albarello with bearded man with restored section to rim, the other with replaced base) (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationA comparable albarello also dated 1555 with a portrait of a man in Turkish costume within the same cartouche is in the Museé de la Renaissance in Ecouen.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Spanish Hispano-Moresque Albarello, Valencia (Manises), circa 1400-1450The cylindrical form, with a tall neck and slanting shoulder, standing on a short footrim, decorated with five horizontal bands and covered in a blue and copper-lustre, decorated around the neck with a band of undulating calligraphic script in blue against scrolling lustre elements, a wide band of vertical abstract leaf motifs in blue alternating with diagonal hatching, a band of scrolling foliage in lustre and calligraphic inscriptions in triangular blue cartouches forming a stiff-leaf band over the lustred foot, 29cm highFootnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationFor a discussion of these albarelli or containers, see Anthony Ray, Spanish Pottery 1248-1898 (2000), plate 11, cat.no.134, where the author discusses the fifteenth century lustre and blue wares in Persian style and illustrates an albarello with a very comparable quintuple banding.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Faenza maiolica albarello, circa 1540-70Decorated with an oval portrait of a bearded man in yellow and ochre border, against foliate scrollwork in blue, enclosed by stylised borders, 24cm highFootnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Deruta or Tuscan Maiolica Albarello, circa 1530Decorated with a drug label 'ZU.VIOLATO', or candied violets, set on an escutcheon with three single blooms surrounded by a stiff foliage wreath, the reverse with blue single scrolls, 23cm high (cracks, flaking to glaze around the base, crazed)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Deruta maiolica albarello, circa 1530-50Decorated with a drug label inscribed 'STORCE.LIQV' on an overlapping scale pattern in blue, yellow and ochre, enclosed by scrolling foliage, 23cm high (some typical chips and haircracks)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationSTORCE LIQV stands for liquid storax, which is the gum resin obtained in classical times from the trunk of the tree styraxofficinalis and in later time from liquidambar orientalis; their fruit is thought effective against rheumatic pain. The bark has astringent properties and addresses dysentery and diarrhea. Gum resin from the trees has anti-inflammatory and expectorant properties and has been used to treat bedsores, topical herpes and angina. See Rudolf E. A. Drey, Apothecary Jars (1978), p. 233.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very large Castel Durante maiolica armorial albarello, first half 16th centuryPainted with a polychrome scrollwork drug label inscribed 'SUC. VIOLAT' (Zucchero Violato or candied violets) above a coat of arms featuring a lion holding a palm branch flanked by the letters FG, another emblem over the label with the same initials, 30cm high (some chips and haircracks)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationA smaller albarello from the same pharmacy in the Museé National Adrien Dubouché, Limoges, is published by J. Giacomotti, Les majoliques des Musées nationaux (1974), p. 241, fig. 789.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A large Castel Durante armorial istoriato container, workshop of Ludovico and Angelo Picchi, circa 1560Of inverted pear shape, on a waisted foot, decorated with an armorial, possibly of Andrea Boerio, amidst a continuous istoriato scene depicting The Crucifixion, set in a naturalistic landscape, Mary to the side of the Cross, the continuous drug label reading 'SY.DEVe.INFUSIONIBV.ROSAR', 35.5cm high (some typical chips and haircracks, drilled foot, filled in chip to foot)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationThis large albarello is part of a group of apothecary vessels commissioned by Andrea Boerio, a Genoese merchant residing in Palermo, and has been attributed to Angelo and Ludovio Picchi and dated to the years 1562-63.Several albarelli of this particular pharmacy have survived; there is a smaller cylindrical albarello in the collections of the Musei Civici of Pesaro, no. 4387; another similar one was sold more recently at auction as part of a restitution by the Dutch government to the heirs of Fritz Gutmann; another albarello from this pharmacy, previously in the Campana Collection, now in the Louvre (inv. OA 1893) is illustrated by Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des Majoliques des Musées Nationaux (1974), p. 241, fig. 793.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Faenza or Castel Durante maiolica armorial albarello, mid 16th centuryDecorated with a coat of arms below a scrolling drug label inscribed 'ELLm DE BACCISLAU' in Gothic script over a large coat of arms, and under an apothecary label reading RGD, 23cm high (some chips and long crack)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Spanish Hispano-Moresque Albarello, Valencia (Manises), circa 1400-1450The cylindrical body with a tall neck and slanting shoulder, standing on a short footrim, decorated in blue and copper-lustre with seven alternating geometric horizontal bands, including abstracted alafia symbols alternated with panels of lustre scrollwork over a band with cross hatch pattern again placed over a band with abstracted Kufic inscription, all in blue and copper-lustre, alternating with geometric bands and stylised bands of scrolling foliage, 28.5cm highFootnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationA comparable albarello in the collection of the British Museum is illustrated by Anthony Ray, Spanish Pottery 1248-1898 (2000), no 134. Stylistically, the cross-hatched panels appear on a number of drug jars, as does the alafia design which here is reflected in a calligraphic motif consisting of a 'circumflex accent' over an 'alpha' on its side; the Arabic word means 'health and happiness. (Ray 2000, p. 401). A charger with a closely similar division of bands, including alternating alafia and stylised Kufic script around the rim, is in the Wallace Collection (A.V.B. Norman, Catalogue of Ceramics 1, pottery, maiolica, faience, stoneware (1976), pp. 40ff).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A pair of armorial albarelli, probably Le Marche, dated 1580Each decorated with a drug label in Gothic script reading 'FALANGA' and 'SALAM AROMATIC' (sic) above a coat of arms of three geese and a horizontal yellow band with three red blooms on a blue ground, flanked by trophies and enclosed in an oak-leaf border, both dated '1580' on the reverse, the interior with a lead glaze, 20.5cm high (minimal typical glaze losses) (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationTraditionally given to Deruta or Castel Durante, these albarelli are now thought to have been produced in the province of le Marche, east of Perugia, between Pesaro and Pescara. Another albarello from this unusual series with unidentified coat of arms is in the British Museum and published by D. Thornton/T. Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, A catalogue of the British Museum collection, Vol. I (2009), p.381, no.227. The authors note that these albarelli are part of a larger group and list the various examples in public collections. The authors go on to identify three different but notable sets made for the same institution or family, although their exact geographic origins remain a mystery.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A massive Urbino maiolica istoriato wet drug jar, attributed to the Fontana Workshop, circa 1565-70Of oval shape with a serpent handle over a moulded mask, decorated to the front with two putti holding up a label reading 'A.D.COCCVZE', above a seated crowned woman holding a sceptre flanked by trees, in a mountainous landscape with rocks and buildings, 34cm high (some restoration)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationThis vessel is part of a series that is now believed to have been made in the workshop of Orazio Fontana for the apothecary of the Santuario di Loreto. A large part of the apothecary is in the Museo del Palazzo Apostolico di Loreto. Another highly comparable wet drug jar of nearly the same size and shape is in the collection of the Casa di Risparmio di Perugia and was published by T. Wilson/E. Sani, Le maioliche rinascimentali nelle collezioni della Fondazione Casse di Risparmio di Perugia, (2006), cat.no 55, where the authors point out that the series can be attributed to the Fontana workshop based on stylistic comparison with a vase in the British Museum and a vase sold at auction in London in 1950, both inscribed 'FATE.IN.BOTEGA.DE.ORATIO.FONTANA' and 'FATTO IN URBINO IN BOTEGA DI ORATIO FONTANA', pp.166-170. It is plausible that the seated figure represents the city of Florence, holding a fleur-de-lys sceptre, though this theory cannot be proven. The decorative scheme recurs on a later series made in Pesaro or Castel Durante around 1574-75, where the crowned figure is sitting beneath a canopy. Both types are illustrated next to one-another in Rudolf E A Drey, Apothecary Jars (1978), plates 24a and 24b. Two vases of this type without the drug label, one in the Victoria and Albert museum (inv.no.8969&A-1863) and one formerly in the Spitzer collection, are inscribed 'Fatto in Urbino' (made in Urbino). A further albarello of this type is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, illustrated in Julia Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum (1995), no.411. She notes that there are some forty known pharmacy vessels, albarelli and ewers, most of which she lists, p.377. There are two further albarelli in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (inv. nos.1975.1.995 and 1975.1.996). A pair of similar wet drug jars was sold at Christie's Paris, Collection d'un amateur, 15 May 2003, lot 535, and a double-handled pharmacy jar of a similar size to this one at Christie's London, 2 November 2016, lot 199.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A massive Urbino maiolica istoriato wet drug jar, attributed to the Fontana Workshop, circa 1565-70En suite with the previous lot, of oval shape with a serpent handle over a moulded mask, decorated with two putti holding up a label reading 'A.D.PRIASSIO', above a seated crowned woman holding a sceptre flanked by trees, in a mountainous landscape with rocks and buildings, 34cm high (some restoration)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationThis vessel is part of a series that is now believed to have been made in the workshop of Orazio Fontana for the apothecary of the Santuario di Loreto. A large part of the apothecary is in the Museo del Palazzo Apostolico di Loreto. Another highly comparable wet drug jar of nearly the same size and shape is in the collection of the Casa di Risparmio di Perugia and was published by T. Wilson/E. Sani, Le maioliche rinascimentali nelle collezioni della Fondazione Casse di Risparmio di Perugia, (2006), cat.no 55, where the authors point out that the series can be attributed to the Fontana workshop based on stylistic comparison with a vase in the British Museum and a vase sold at auction in London in 1950, both inscribed 'FATE.IN.BOTEGA.DE.ORATIO.FONTANA' and 'FATTO IN URBINO IN BOTEGA DI ORATIO FONTANA', pp.166-170. It is plausible that the seated figure represents the city of Florence, holding a fleur-de-lys sceptre, though this theory cannot be proven. The decorative scheme recurs on a later series made in Pesaro or Castel Durante around 1574-75, where the crowned figure is sitting beneath a canopy. Both types are illustrated next to one-another in Rudolf E A Drey, Apothecary Jars (1978), plates 24a and 24b. Two vases of this type without the drug label, one in the Victoria and Albert museum (inv.no.8969&A-1863) and one formerly in the Spitzer collection, are inscribed 'Fatto in Urbino' (made in Urbino). A further albarello of this type is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, illustrated in Julia Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum (1995), no.411. She notes that there are some forty known pharmacy vessels, albarelli and ewers, most of which she lists, p.377. There are two further albarelli in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (inv. nos.1975.1.995 and 1975.1.996). A pair of similar wet drug jars was sold at Christie's Paris, Collection d'un amateur, 15 May 2003, lot 535, and a double-handled pharmacy jar of a similar size to this one at Christie's London, 2 November 2016, lot 199.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Pair of Montelupo maiolica Armorial Albarelli, circa 1520Each painted with the Giraldi family arms of a crowned rampant lion within an oval blue-band medallion with an ochre border on a foliate scrollwork base, 25cm high (one broken) (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationSee Fausto Berti, Storia della ceramics di Montelupo, Florence (1999), vol. 3, nos. 60 and 61 for another albarello from he same apothecary now in the Museo di Ceramica di Faenza. Another albarello of this pharmacy was sold at Christie's London, 18 December 2006, lot 26.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Spanish Hispano-Moresque lusterware Albarello, Valencia (Manises), circa 1400-1450Of cylindrical form, with a tall neck and slanting shoulder, on a short footrim, decorated with a Gothic letter 'G' in blue repeated three times around the middle, alternated by stylised 'disc-flowers' in yellow lustre, the rim with a zig-zag pattern in alternating lustre and blue, 27.5cm high, old paper collectors' labels to the baseFootnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationAnthony Ray (Spanish Pottery 1248-1898 (2000), p. 47) identifies the 'disc-flower' pattern as a stylised flower with three to seven disc-like petals on a dotted ground, a distinctive motif on much lusterware of the first half of the 15th century he associates with the Ave Maria group. The author notes that the pattern often serves as a background for stylised Gothic letters and motifs like birds or flowers in blue.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Sicilian maiolica Albarello, probably Caltagirone, early 18th centuryOf waisted cylindrical form, painted with formal scrolling foliage on a blue and ochre ground within banded borders, 24cm (three chips to flange of rim)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Palermo maiolica albarello, 17th CenturyOf waisted cylindrical shape, decorated with an oval cartouche enclosing a standing putto, set against a panelled and segmented ground in green, ochre and blue with stiff leaves and stylised scrollwork cartouches, 24cm high VR A (?) in brown script to the base (retouching to flaked enamels on the wider parts and some smaller losses)Footnotes:Provenance:Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Pair of Italian Maiolica Albarelli, 19th CenturyIn Castel Durante-style with a putto standing over a sea-creature within a central cartouche, reserved against a blue scrollwork sgraffito base with ochre trophies, one cover with similar trophies and apocryphal date 1580, 25cm high (including cover) (one albarello with chip and re-stuck section to foot, the cover missing its finial, the other missing its cover altogether) (3)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Spanish Albarello, Valencia (Paterna or Manises),1400-1450Decorated in blue on impure white tin-glazed ground with a triple repetition of 'P' or 'Y' in Gothic script surrounded by foliate scrollwork between concentric bands, 25cm high (some losses to the glaze, smaller shallow chip inside the lip)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationA similar albarello is published by Anthony Ray, Spanish Pottery 1248-1898 (2000), no. 98, where the author notes that the style of decoration is related to the 'disc flower' group and the 'Ave Maria' pieces, where for the first time Christian and Islamic iconography are freely mixed and Gothic script is introduced. Both albarelli are in blue and white.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Spanish Hispano-Moresque Albarello, Valencia (Manises), circa 1435-75Of cylindrical form, with a tall neck and slanting shoulder, standing on a short footrim, decorated with ten horizontal bands of a stylised flower pattern known as the briony pattern in blue and copper-lustre, 30cm high, various paper collectors' labels to the base (restored)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Foundation The briony motif is - like the ivy motif - one of the most recognisable types of decoration on Hispano-Moresque pottery. According to Anthony Ray (Spanish Pottery 1248-1898 (2000), p. 73) fragments with this motif have been found in the Castell Formós, sacked in 1413, and others in the castle of Llinars, destroyed in 1448. Other pieces can be dated from the heraldry, and Ray goes on to list several rare armorial dishes, all with forms of the briony motif (op.cit., cat. nos. 152-160). This particular stylised flower pattern is continued in Italian pottery; perhaps the most splendid example can be found in the two-handled vase with the arms of Medici-Orsini in the Detroit Institute of Art (37.74). It is discussed in detail by Timothy Wilson, who notes that it is curious that the briony design seems to have come into use on maiolica made in Tuscany about 1480, after it had ceased to be fashionable on imports from Spain. The Detroit vase can, argues Wilson, be seen as a pivotal piece produced at a moment in time when Italian potters, after decades in which wealthy Italian clients had preferred imported lusterware from Valencia to native-made ceramics, conquered the top of their domestic market and began making wares appreciated by the most discriminating and demanding connoisseurs of Renaissance Italy. (see: T. Wilson, The Impact of Hispano-Moresque Imports in Fifteenth-century Florence, Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts (2013), vol 87, pp. 8-13)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Spanish Hispano-Moresque Albarello, circa 1435-50The cylindrical body with a tall neck and slanting shoulder standing on a short footrim, decorated with eight horizontal bands of stylised ivy leaf pattern in blue and copper-lustre, 28cm high, collectors' marks 1242/12 in black to the baseFootnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationComparable examples of this type of albarello are found in the British Museum 1968,0204.1 and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1956 (56.171.95). The ivy-leaf pattern is one of the most recognisable patterns in maiolica production in Manises at this time. It was used on a multitude of vessels, including armorial pieces. Much like the Briony motif, this style was particularly popular in Italy. More unusual examples are the drug-jars with this pattern and the arms of Zeeland, almost certainly to be regarded as Valenschenweck imported into Flanders free of duty. As Anthony Ray (2000) describes it, these wares are amongst the masterpieces in ceramic art. Their technical perfection and virtuoso designs must have seemed almost miraculous to contemporaries living in the countries where pottery was still in its infancy. It became a very profitable industry and a vital one for the local economy. Thanks to the dominance of the Kingdom of Aragón the export thrived. The prestige of Valencian lusterwares was such that in 1441 Philip the Good of Burgundy declared that Valenschenweck could be imported into Bruges free of duty. A similar exemption was made in Venice in 1455 for laura da maiorca e da Valenca. Vessels with ivy-leaf decoration appear in paintings, the best known being the drug jar in the Annunciation (or Portinari Altarpiece) by Hugo van der Goes, now in the Uffizi, painted in 1482, and the drug-jar and flower vase in Ghirlandaio's Birth of St John the Baptist (1486-90) in Santa Maria Novella, Florence.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Spanish, Talavera, Armorial Albarello, late 18th centuryDecorated in blue with a coat of arms, of three stars surrounding a Crucifix under a crown and flanked by two olive branches, over an empty drug label, 27cm high (broken and restuck)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Spanish, Talavera Albarello, made for the monastery of San Benito el Real, 18th CenturyDecorated in blue with an escutcheon of a rampant lion and single turret under an Abbot's hat over the name of the monastery 'S.Benito El REAL', over an ornamented drug label reading 'CORT.TAMARISC' [possibly Tamarind peel], 28cm highFootnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationTiles with related coat of arms are illustrated by A.Ray, Spanish Pottery 1248-1898 (2000), cat.nos. 636-638, they resemble the coat of arms of Castille and Léon, and many of the Escudos or Coats of Arms in the Spanish provinces show a rampant lion and castle with triple or single turrets. It is however likely that these albarelli can be linked to the old monastery complex of San Benito El Real in Valladolid, a province in Vastilla y Leon, about 120 km south of Burgos. The coat of arms on these albarelli is of an ecclesiastical order, recognisable by the hat over the escutcheon. The tassels of these hats indicate the rank within the catholic church. For example, fifteen tassels for a cardinals hat, ten for an archbishop. Moreover, they are identifiable by colour. These albarelli show the escutcheon of rampant lion and single turret under a hat with six tassels, which corresponds to that of a Bishop or, as in this case, an Abbot.The Church of the Monastery of San Benito el Real was a Benedictine monastery. As the Benedictines had much power and this was their main house in Castile, the church held artworks of high quality. The stalls were used for the annual meetings of the Benedictine Abbots of the Castilian monasteries, which took place in this church. After the Ecclesiastical Confiscation of Mendizábal in 1835, the monastery became a fort and barracks, and the church was deconsecrated. It was stripped of its works of art, though the choir stalls were kept, and the altarpiece transferred to the Museo Nacional de Escultura in the Colegio de San Gregorio, Valladolid. Adjacent to the church is the monastic building with three cloisters, one of them known as Patio Herreriano (now a museum for contemporary art).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An 18th / 19th Century Sicilian maiolica albarello decorated with flowers, approx 16.5 cm high CONDITION REPORTS Two large cracks joining in a U-shape from the neck downwards - see images. Fritting/chipping to the rim and large chip to base rim. Scratch marks to base see images for further detail.
An Italian maiolica albarello with an emperor's portrait, Palermo, 17th C.--H 18,5 cm -- Please request condition reports by e-mail on info@coronariauctions.com. They're being made on demand and added to the description on our website. High resolution pictures are also available on our website at www.coronariauctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@coronariauctions.com
A blue and white albarello with a man taking a poo, Italy, dated 1726--H 14,5 cm -- Please request condition reports by e-mail on info@coronariauctions.com. They're being made on demand and added to the description on our website. High resolution pictures are also available on our website at www.coronariauctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@coronariauctions.com
An Italian maiolica pharmacy bottle and an albarello dated 1667, Caltagirone, 17th C.--H 27,3 - 23,5 cm -- Please request condition reports by e-mail on info@coronariauctions.com. They're being made on demand and added to the description on our website. High resolution pictures are also available on our website at www.coronariauctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@coronariauctions.com
Antique Majolica Drug Jars (Italian, 16th Century or later) Albarello Jars, possibly from Domenico Veneziano. Polychrome Glazed Eathenware Measures: 12 in. x 9 in., and 7 in. x 8 in. x 5 in. Condition: Good / fair condition. For inquiries, condition report and additional images please email info.hillgallery@gmail.com Provenance: Property of a Palm Beach estate. Shipping: Hill Auction Gallery will not ship. Gallery will refer professional third party shippers for USA Domestic and International buyers. Purchaser pick up available upon request.
A Sicilian Maiolica albarello, circa 1660, possibly Collesano, painted in shades of ochre, blue and green with St. Anthony the Great with attributes, within a framed border, verso with scroll-work and indistinctly dated 166, 30cm high Note: St. Anthony the Great (A.D. 251-356) often regarded as the father of monasticism. he resided in the Egyptian interior as hermit for many years and during an outbreak of erysipelas in the 11th century many cures were apparently claimed in his name and hence the disease is also known as St. Anthony's fire. He is usually shown wearing a monk's attire holding a tau stick or crutch, a bell and accompanied by a swine. In the 17th century, swine belonging to the Hospital Brothers of St. Anthony were accorded special grazing rights.
A small façon de Venise albarello or pharmacy jar and cover, 17th century, and a Roman glass vase, 2nd century ADThe albarello possibly forming a reliquary, cylindrical with trailed loop handles at both sides and on the cover, on a spreading folded foot, 11.4cm high, the vase of blue-green tint, globular with trailed strap handles and a hollow folded footring, 10.8cm high (3)
An Italian tin-glazed earthenware albarello, 20th century, in Renaissance style, painted with a head and shoulders portrait of a man, 19cm high, a Rouen faience polychrome shaped rectangular bowl, 19th century, 31cm wide and a Wedgwood style blue jasper salad bowl with silver plated rim, unmarked, 22.5cm. diameter, (3).
An Italian maiolica albarello mid 16th century, Castle Durante or Faenza, the small waisted form painted with the portrait of a bearded gentleman wearing a turban, inscribed 'Iro de lalandal' in blue on a white banner, reserved on a blue ground with musical instruments and foliate scrolls, some chipping to the rim, 15.5cm.
Full title: A pair of Italian maiolica armorial albarelli, Deruta, dated 1562------- Description: H.: 20 cmÊ Ref.:- Sotheby's, Amsterdam, Sep. 17, 2007, for another albarello with the same coat of arms, also dated 1562 and inscribed LOHOC. DI.PAPPI, presumably from the same pharmacy. (Sold EUR 4.750) - Tajan, Paris, March 8, 2006, for another albarello with the same coat of arms, also dated 1562 and inscribed S.DI.FUMOSTERNO, presumably from the same pharmacy. (Sold EUR 12.332) - Christie's, Pictorial History of European Pottery, p.57, no.5, for a syrup jar with the same armorial, presumably from the same pharmacy.
Spanish faience albarello or drug-jar, probably 17th Century, of typical waisted cylindrical form inscribed 'Sulphur' within two-tone blue foliate decoration, unmarked, 27.5cm high Condition: Large chip to the top rim measuring approximately 40mm x 10mm, the foot rim nibbled extensively - **General condition consistent with age.
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