Ref: W171
Archive item - not for sale
Large Italian Faenza polychrome maiolica albarello, circa 1550, painted in blue, yellow, ochre, copper green, orange and brown with a circular cartouche containing a portrait of a man with the name 'Andriano' on a banner, reserved against panels of scrolling foliage, with the inscription 'Sy. de Isop' in gothic letters, the shoulder with a band of interwoven leaves, and the flared based decorated with further panels of scrolling foliage, height: 29 cm. (11 3/8 in.), condition: restoration to the rim and body cracks SOLD
