A PAIR OF VASES WITH LID, LIGURIA, PROBABLY SAVONA, SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY PAIR OF VASES WITH LID, LIGURIA, PROBABLY SAVONA, SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY Made of faience painted in manganese brown monochrome, bulging baluster body on high moulded foot, polylobed domed lid with button grip. The decoration covers the entire surface with a landscape motif of architecture and large trees with birds and small insects. Asterisk mark in manganese under the base of both vases; one vase bears the label ENTE PROVINC. TURISMO GENOVA / MOSTRA ANTICA MAIOLICA LIGURE with the name of the exhibitor Nino Ferrari ; l. cm 31.5, base cm 16.2x13.5 Comparative literature L. Pessa (ed.), Le ceramiche liguri. Musei e collezioni della città di Genova , Milan 2005, p. 110 nn. 136-137