Large albarello in Lyon majolica - End of the sixteenth century - Beginning of the seventeenth century - SOLD

Large albarello or pot of "Monster" with double bulge with large twisted handles, finished at each end in volutes. Pharmaceutical inscription

in black gothic letters.

French Renaissance type.

Height: 32cm

Late sixteenth Early seventeenth century

A series of nine similar pots would be kept in the collections of the Hospices Civils de Lyon, another at the hospital in Yssingeaux.

Expo: French earthenware, Paris, 1980, cat. p. 81. Bible. :

Chompret, 1946, Plate 58, Fig 235.

Chambonnet, 1978. 60, no. 32. Freal, 1982, p.94 Fakhri, 1994, p. 6, fig.8

Deloche, 1994, P.4é, fig. 60.