A pair of Italian pilgrim bottles
early 17th century
Possibly Ligurian, decorated with a marbled slip glaze in ochre, green, cream and deep brown, both flasks with two loop handles moulded as grotesques masks, 23cm high, (two chips to the neck of one of the bottles) (2)
Possibly Ligurian, decorated with a marbled slip glaze in ochre, green, cream and deep brown, both flasks with two loop handles moulded as grotesques masks, 23cm high, (two chips to the neck of one of the bottles) (2)
Sold for
£960
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Two sgraffito bottles of the same shape but larger are in the collection of the Victoria and Albert museum, see Rackham 1977, cat.no. 1400 and 1406.
Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics
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