Pot à pharmacie en faïence de Faenza, atelier de Ferniani, circa 1770

A Faenza faience wet drug jar, Ferniani workshop, circa 1770

Of bulbous form on a flared foot, with a short spout and rope-twist handle, painted with a continuous landscape with a broken column flanked by two birds perched on trees beneath the spout and on the reverse, each side with a flower bouquet in an urn, a floral border with trellis panels below the rim, the handle and spout embellished with flowers, 26cm high (one chip to footrim)
Footnotes:
Provenance
Private collection, Modena

Literature
G. Liverani, Maioliche settecentesche dell'Emilia Romagna (1981), pl. 62

There is a 3cm x 1.5cm chip to the footrim, as well as two further small flat chips (5mm) to the edge of the footrim.
There is an 8mm wide flat glaze chip to the edge of the rim; and a 1.5cm wide glaze chip/flake to the top edge of the rim on the opposite side, alongside a very narrow 4mm long glaze flake. There is a very small flake of glaze lacking to a tip on one side of the rope-twist handle above the spout.
Otherwise in good condition.