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Rare pharmacy jar in majolica from Montpellier - Seventeenth century SOLD

Rare Montpellier majolica pharmacy jar with polychrome decoration of stylized leaves and fruits. The handle decorated with foliage yellow foliage on a blue background, rests on a winged cherub head in relief. Factory of Jean FAVIER or Daniel OLLIVIER. Late Sixteenth - early seventeenth century. 

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Rare Montpellier majolica pharmacy jar with polychrome decoration of stylized leaves and fruits. The handle decorated

with foliage yellow foliage on a blue background, rests on a winged cherub head in relief.

Factory of Jean FAVIER or Daniel OLLIVIER.

Late Sixteenth - Early seventeenth century.

High. 23cm.

Spout and two chips of enamel restored and a slight crack in the neck (see photos)

Ref: Dr Chompret: Primitive French Earthenware, pl. 2, fig. E. Jean Thuile 1943, p.136, pl. XIV. Catalog of French earthenware,

Grand Palais exhibition - 1980.

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Rare pharmacy jar in majolica from Montpellier - Seventeenth century SOLD

Rare pharmacy jar in majolica from Montpellier - Seventeenth century SOLD

Rare Montpellier majolica pharmacy jar with polychrome decoration of stylized leaves and fruits. The handle decorated with foliage yellow foliage on a blue background, rests on a winged cherub head in relief. Factory of Jean FAVIER or Daniel OLLIVIER. Late Sixteenth - early seventeenth century.