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Tin-glazed earthenware footed lidded cup decorated with winged creatures and grotesque paintings, Bachus and Cupid inside. Minor losses Diameter: 16 cm; Height: 18 cm. Attributed to Deruta, Italy, c. 1600. -
Tin-glazed earthenware salt cellars decorated with winged creatures and grotesque paintings. Restored, losses. Size: 16 x 16 cm; Height: 2.5 cm. Attributed to Deruta, Italy, c. 1600. -
Tin-glazed earthenware polychrome plate of round form, decorated with a figure of John the Baptist wearing clothes of camel's hair with a tall cross in his left hand and with a halo over his head, walking in a desert with hills on the background. The lip is decorated with circles and scales, base with concentric circles. Diameter: 23 cm; Height: 4 cm. -
Tin-glazed earthenware plate with lustre in blue and ochre, decorated in relief with a deer in the centre and a chain of tulips on the lip; base signed “CK” in blue. Restored. Diameter: 24.8 cm; Height: 2.5 cm. Attributed to Gubbio (Umbria, Italy), 1520-1550. -
Footed round dish depicting a gentleman in an urban landscape holding a halberd in a style of "Arlecchino di Montelupo". Unsigned. Chips to the bottom. Diameter: 32.5 cm; Height: 4.5 cm. Produced in Italy, in Montelupo, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) southwest of Florence. 17th century, probably the first half. "After 1630, the year of the great plague, the number of potters reduced considerably and in the second half of the 1600s production suffered a drastic slump, potteries that specialized in a more prestigious production disappeared completely leaving only the potteries that produced kitchenware and terracotta objects" [www.tuscany-charming.it]. -
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