Rare large albarello in majolica from Lyon - End of the sixteenth - beginning of the seventeenth century - SOLD
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Large albarello or "monster" double bulge pot with big twisted handles, ending at each end in volutes.
Pharmaceutical registration in Gothic letters in black.
French Renaissance type.
Top: 32cm - Diam: 32cm.
A cooking crack on the back, a handle and some windings restored.
End of the sixteenth century Beginning of the seventeenth century.
A series of nine similar pots would be kept in the collections of the Civil Hospitals of Lyon, another at the Yssingeaux
Hospital.
Expo.:Faïences françaises, Paris, 1980, cat. p. 81.
Bibli. : Chompret, 1946, Plate 58, Fig 235.
Chambonnet, 1978. 60, No. 32.
Freal, 1982, p.94
Fakhri, 1994, p. 6, fig.8
Deloche, 1994, P.4e, fig. 60.