Details
Decorated in copper luster and cobalt blue, the slightly flaring cylindrical neck with concentric banding, similar banding separating the drug jar into two registers, each similarly decorated with stylized plants on a 'parsley' ground
1134 in. (30 cm.) high, 514 in. (13.5 cm.) diameter, overall
Provenance
George and Florence Blumenthal, New York.
Bequest of George Blumenthal to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1941 (41.190.112).
Acquired from the museum in June 2007 along with a French medieval ivory tabernacle leaf circa 1300, the two pieces in exchange for a 14th century French marble canopy in Mr. Doll's collection.


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Please refer to the online catalogue entry updated 10 October 2020 for additional information regarding the provenance of this lot and important collections in which similar examples are to be found.
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See Anthony Ray, Spanish Pottery 1248-1898, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2000, pp. 46-47, 66 and 80 for comparable examples.

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