Description:
Savona majolica pouring vessel, F.A. mark, second quarter of the 18th century
Of globular form, the circular mouth with rounded rim, it has a ribbon handle and a foot shaped as a roll.
The decoration, monochrome blue on a white background, arranges its figures in the rarefied landscape typical of the eighteenth-century type of "figurines", extending over the entire surface of the vase. The part that has become anterior because it is opposite to the one where the handle is applied, houses the coat of arms of the Olivetan Order flanked by two angels, participants in the abbreviated pictorial style of the whole. The initials "F.A" are placed on the bottom of the vase.
height 13 centimeters
Exhibitions: Paper label of the "Ancient Ligurian Majolica" Exhibition of 1939 in Genoa
Bibliographic notes: Loredana Pessa identifies the insignia painted on the surface of a plate from the civic collections: cf. "The ceramics collections. Heraldic majolica of Ligurian manufacture", Cinisello Balsamo 2000, card n. 11, p. 21.
