Decorated with a coat-of-arms within a laurel wreath garland, with leaf scrolls against a white ground

14¹⁄₂ in. (36.9 cm.) high

Raccolta Pisa, Auction Palazzo Davanzati, Florence, 26-31 May 1941, lot 389 (according to the client's records).
Acquired by Giuseppe in 1986.

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For early 17th-century pharmacy wares with the same arms, but with lighter scrolling foliage to the reverses typical of a later period, see Angela Di Blasi Ferla and Vittoriano Valenti, L’Antica Maiolica Siciliana, private collezioni, Palermo, 2005. The large jar is illustrated alongside an albarello and a bottle-vase, all of which bear the same arms and were presumably from the same pharmacy.