I2A Alternate view. 12 B Alternate view.from roughly 1460 to 1490.^7 The form of this jar and its
glaze color and decoration are also found on similar
works attributed to central Italy and so attest to the
"cross-pollination" among potteries—due to the move
ment of craftsmen as well as objects—and to the com
mon vocabulary of ceramic form and decoration that
extended throughout central Italy.^8
Jars with similar rope-twist handles, splayed-line
motifs around the shoulder, slanted lines around the
neck and/or base, and panels of decoration on the front
and back bordered by repetitive curved lines imitating a
twisted rope include a jar in the Museo Internazionale
delle Ceramiche (inv. 21097/0), the Minneapolis Mu
seum of Art (inv. 43.21.2), and the Museo Nazionale,
Palazzo del Bargello, Florence (inscribed MARIA; Dia-
monstein bequest 1984).76 Armorial far