Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

ITALIAN CERAMICS 20I

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344 Jug with Bust Medallion (brocea)

Florentine area, circa 1450-1500

Tin-glazed earthenware

Height: 1 ft. iVs in. (34.6 cm); Diameter (at

rim): 3% in. (9.8 cm); Maximum Width:

ι ft. ι in. (33 cm)

Accession number 84 .DE.101

PROVENANCE

Savile family, Rufford Abbey, Nottingham

(sold, Knight, Frank and Rutley in associa­

tion with Christies, London, October 11-20,

1938, lot 879); [Alfred Spero, London];

(sold, Sotheby's, London, December 4,

1956, lot 24); Robert Strauss, London (sold,

Christie's, London, June 21,1976, lot 7);

[Rainer Zietz, Ltd., London].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Christies Review of the Season 1975 (Lon­

don and New York, 1976), p. 394; Morley-

Fletcher and Mcllroy, European Pottery, p. 26,

fig. 3; "Acquisitions/1984," GettyMusJ 13

(1985), no. 154, p. 239, illus.; Hess, Maiolica,

no. 13, pp. 43-45.

345. Two-handled Cylindrical Jar
     (albarello biansato)
     Faenza, circa 1460-1480
     Tin-glazed earthenware
     Inscribed marks under foot (graduations?).
     Height: 9 in. (22.9 cm); Diameter (at lip):
     4V16 in. (11.2 cm); Maximum Width: 93 /s in.
     (23.8 cm)
     Accession number 84 .DE.102

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