POLYCHROME MAIOLICA CYLINDER, WORKSHOP OF MASTRO DOMENICO, VENICE, CIRCA 1570 decorated with a portrait of a young man and an image of a Saint (?) in reserves within volute frames on a plain background; the mouth possibly filed, a few losses of enamel with underlying material, a few felting and minor additions of colour to the enamel H 39.5 cm, diam. 27 cm A VENICE MAIOLICA VASE, CIRCA 1570; THE UPPER RIM PROBABLY FILED, FEW GLAZE AND MATERIAL LOSSES, FEW FELURES AND MINOR RE-PAINTING For a comparison between this albarello and other examples of the same Venetian production, see, among others, C. Ravanelli Guidotti, Homage to Venice. Maioliche veneziane tra manierismo e barocco nelle raccolte del Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, vol. II, exhibition catalogue, Faenza 1998, pp. 49-52). A cylinder similar to this illustrated was already on the Anglo-Saxon market (H. Morley-Fletcher, R. McIlroy, Christie's Pictorial History of European Pottery, London 1984, p. 89 no. 14).