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A rare Deruta maiolica Holy Water Stoop, mid-17th
A rare Deruta maiolica Holy Water Stoop, mid-17th
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A rare Deruta maiolica Holy Water Stoop,
mid-17th century, in the form of a conical cup with grotesques flanked by heads and painted in a typical palette of yellow, ochre and blue, and surmounted by an oval cartouche with the figure of a saint or priest holding a chalice on a green ground, bordered by male and female angels in high relief below a large cherubim head,
33cm
Literature:Similar grotesques can be seen on a Deruta, 1600-60, dish in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, see 'Italian Maiolica', Julia E Poole, Cambridge University Press, 1995, col. pl. 21.
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A rare Deruta maiolica Holy Water Stoop, mid-17th

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