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Pair of vases Marche workshop (Pesaro?), last...

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Pair of vases Marche workshop (Pesaro?), last quarter of the 16th cent. Majolica. Height with lid about 26 cm. Conservation: very good@@@ restored lids@@@ one vase with restorations to handles and small at edges. Pair of apothecary jars with globular body, mouth with low vertical collar, closed by a domed lid with knob socket. The side sockets are serpentiform and rest on a relief mask. The decoration frontally consists of a circular medallion within which stands the allegorical figure of Fortune, standing on a dolphin in the act of clutching a sail. Surrounding it on the remaining surface are "trophies," also echoed on the lids. Painted in brownish orange, yellow blue, and green. This pair of vases is an expression of the most valued Marche tradition of apothecary vases. The "trophies" that characterize the decorative garb of this pair, start in the late 1620s with the Durantine ones in "grisaille," passing through those of Simone da Colonnello's workshop in the 1660s of the same century, to arrive at the "ochraceous" apothecary series, often anchored to precise dates, "1579" and "1580," particularly the one called "Fortuna," now dispersed in prestigious private and public raises, to which this pair of vases belongs. These are materials that in Pesaro are matched by finds recovered from urban sites, mostly with "trophies," painted in "ochraceous" orange, which offer stringent typological connections with those found in this pair, that is, panoplies with the rather emphasized constituent elements