POLYCHROME FAIENCE VASE, MONTELUPO KILN, 18TH CENTURY Bi-layered, the sockets inform of fantastic animals with masks, bipartite blue leaf decoration and anepigraphic cartouche; wear, some firing defects and lack of glaze, a few losses of glaze and underlying material, a few felures H 29 cm, W 26 cm A MONTELUPO MAIOLICA VASE, 17TH CENTURY; WORN, SOME FIRING DEFECTS AND FELURES, FEW GLAZE AND MATERIAL LOSSES See, among others, the example published by Berti (F. Berti, Capolavori della maiolica rinascimentale. Montelupo 'fabbrica' di Firenze 1400-1630, exhibition catalogue, Florence 2002, p. 306).