4. Albarello en majolique de Deruta, vers 1500-1510 A Deruta maiolica albarello, circa 1500-1510 Previously attributed to Siena by Dr Chompret, of cylindrical slightly waisted shape, decorated with a drug label reading TRiFeN a MAGN a, over a Moor's head roundel and under an apothecary label of PAQ and ecclesiastical cross, all set on stylised floral motifs in blue against an ochre ground, in turn surrounded by a stiff leaf border held together in four places with yellow ribbons, the reverse with two gothic scrolls, 23.5cm high, 14 cm diam. This albarello is part of a group of albarelli decorated with a Moor's head. One example from the collection of Dr Chompret was most recently sold at Pecheteau Badin (31 May 2022, lot 17) and there are other examples in international museum collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Boymans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum in London. About ten albarelli of the same dimensions as our albarello as well as a chevrette, undated, belong to a group slightly later than the series dated 1501. Six albarelli of this set were part of the former Pringsheim collection (Otto von Falke, Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München (1914), cat.nos. 113-115). One of them is now in the Musée National de la Céramique and reproduced by Jeanne Giacomotti, Les majoliques des Musées nationaux, 1972, cat.no. 416.