LARGE MAIOLICA ALBARELLO,

Venice, workshop of Domenico da Venezia, c. 1570.

"Fiori e Frutti" decoration, foliate tendrils and scrolled decoration on cobalt blue ground. With a portrait on both sides, one of a bearded man, the other of a lady with pearl earring, each within a volute cartouche,

H 38 cm, D 25 cm.

LARGE MAIOLICA ALBARELLO,

Venice, workshop of Domenico da Venezia, c. 1570.

"Fiori e Frutti" decoration, foliate tendrils and scrolled decoration on cobalt blue ground. The front with female portrait in a volute cartouche, the reverse with a reserve with the title "MOSTARDA F A" between volutes and bearded male heads.

H 38 cm, D 25 cm.

MAIOLICA ISTORIATO TONDO "THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST",

Casteldurante, workshop of Andrea da Negroponte, attributed, c. 1540.

Bowl with wide rim. Depicting the Baptism of Christ by John the Baptist, two figures witnessing the event within a river landscape with a city view in the background.

D 27.5 cm. Restored, hairline crack.

RARE MAIOLICA ISTORIATO TONDO,

Urbino, workshop of Guido da Merlino, c. 1540-1545.

Bowl with wide rim. The centre with depiction of Christ and the Adultress (John 8: 1-11), the sides with the crowding residents at the city gates within architecture and a river landscape in the background.

D 27 cm.

RARE TAZZA "SAN GEROLAMO",

Deruta, probably workshop of Giacomo Mancini, called "El Frate" (aktiv c. 1540-60), first half of the 16th century.

Painted in blue and "lustro dorato". The kneeling Saint Jerome with recumbent lion before Golgotha with Christ on the Cross, within a hilly landscape with architecture. The underside painted with concentric circles in lustre, on a flat recessed foot.

D 26 cm. H 6 cm. Restored.

RARE MAIOLICA "BERETTINO" TONDO,

Faenza, dated 1520.

Bowl with wide rim. Depiction of a half-figure, holding a scroll with illegible writing, on a blue ground with light blue grotesques and tendrils heightened in white. Dated 1520 in blue on the reverse.

D 26 cm. Restoration.

LARGE MAIOLICA PLATE "DA POMPA",

Pesaro or Casteldurante, late 16th century/beginning of the 17th century.

Stand for a large water ewer "bacile di versatore“. The centre with depiction of the antique mythological scene "Apollo und Daphne" within three circular bands with grotesque decoration in Compendiario style with depictions of satyrs, birds and scrollwork in between antique medallions on a white ground.

D 45 cm. Restored.

SILVER-GILT "RATHSPOKAL" STANDING CUP

Nienburg an der Weser 1648. Unassigned maker's mark HCT or HGT.

H 46.3 cm. 8583 g.

IMPORTANT "COMPENDIARIO" MAIOLICA PLATE "LA STRAGE DEGLI INNOCENTI",

Castelli d'Abruzzo, attributed to the workshop of Orazio Pompei (1507-1589), c. 1561-1565.

Of depressed form with wide rim. Painted in blue, yellow and ochre yellow, heightened in copper green and brown. Decorated with the tragic Biblical account of the Massacre of the Innocents (Matthew 2: 16) before a townscape with viaduct, after the graphic model by Raimondi after a design by Raphael from 1509.

D 44 cm. Old, stabilised crack.

SANCTUARY LAMP,

Neapel, um 1780.

H approx. 75. D approx. 15 cm. 960 g.

IMPORTANT MAIOLICA "MADONNA DELLA SANTA CASA DI LORETO",

Urbino, workshop of Alfonso Patanazzi, second half of the 16th century.

"In veste dalmatica" type. The head of the Madonna crowned, on her arm the Christ Child with the right hand raised in benediction and the left hand holding an orb. Conical, wavy robe painted in blue with tendrils in imitation of brocade, modelled with two necklaces.

H 45 cm. Minor restoration.

PAIR OF CANDLESTICKS,

probably Italy, 18th century. With maker's mark: GM.

H each approx. 20.5 cm. Total 683 g.

PAIR OF MAIOLICA DRUG-JARS "A QUARTIERI",

Faenza, c. 1550.

Bombola type, "a quartieri" decoration in blue and ochre yellow, heightened in green. The fronts each with a medallion with an antique portrait head "Anibalo" and "Camilo" surrounded by blue tendril panels on alternating blue and ochre yellow ground. Scroll with the pharmaceutical title "El. De.Forbis" and "Exinuentione Nostra".

H 19.5 cm. Restorations.

MAIOLICA ISTORIATO BOWL "SACRIFICE OF ISAAC",

Urbino, workshop of Patanazzi, c. 1560.

Of concave form, painted on both sides. Depicting Abraham with raised sword at the moment prior to sacrificing his son Isaac, with an angel above, holding the sword of Abraham. The underside profiled, painted with a sea scene with monsters and a fish-riding nymph.

D 21 cm. Foot missing.

PAIR OF CANDLESTICKS,

Turin 18th century. Maker's mark: ALC.

H each approx. 17.4 cm. Total 543 g.

MAIOLICA "SCRAFFITO" BOWL,

Ferrara, 16th century.

Light green glaze with sgraffito details and a coat of arms in the centre, painted in green and ochre yellow.

D 29 cm. Repaired.

RARE MAIOLICA BOWL WITH THE MEDICI COAT OF ARMS,

Tuscany, Montelupo or Cafaggiolo, c. 1540.

Of flared form, with profile ring and on profiled foot. Painted in blue, ochre yellow and red with white flower tendrils on a blue ground and ochre yellow horizontal bands, the well of the bowl with cartouche with the Medici coat of arms.

D 32 cm. Repairs.

PAIR OF SMALL MASS JUGS,

probably Spain end of the 17th / early 18th century. With illegible hallmarks.

H each c. 13.5 cm. Total 277 g.

MAIOLICA "GHIRLANDA DI FRUTTA",

Florence, Della Robbia workshop, probably 15th/16th century.

Naturalistically modelled and painted. Mounted on a metal ring.

D 62 cm/41 cm/11 cm. Repairs and supplements.

PAIR OF CANDLESTICKS,

Turin, 18th century. Maker's mark indistinct.

H each approx. 27.5 cm. Total 1399 g.

OVAL FOOTED TRAY,

probably Italy after 18th century.

Approx. 35x26 cm. 820 g.

ALBARELLO "BIANCHI DI FAENZA",

Faenza, late 16th/beginning of the 17th century.

Painted in blue, ochre and yellow. With a coat of arms with helmet decoration in a blue foliate border above two double lines with the inscription "UNG DIFFENZIVO".

H 17 cm.

PAIR OF CANDLESTICKS,

Venice, 18th century. Maker's mark: probably ARF.

H each approx. 20 cm. Total 1027 g.

TRAY WITH HANDLES,

Rome 1750-1780. Maker's mark indistinct.

Approx. 39x52.5 cm. Approx. 1760 g.

FAIENCE TERRINE AND STAND,

Lodi, Antonio Ferretti Manufactory, c. 1775-1780.

With side handles modelled with rocailles. Decorated with purple bands, heightened in gold and with polychrome flower festoons between gold branches, gilt edges. Blue stroke mark on the underside of the stand.

D 23.8 cm/ 15 cm. Restored. (3)