POLYCHROME FAIENCE VASE, MONTELUPO KILN, 18TH CENTURY en suite with the next lot, double-handled and decorated with a figure of St. John the Evangelist in reserve on a background of bipartite blue leaf and anepigraphic cartouche; wear, some firing defects and minor glaze losses, damage H 19.5 cm, W 18.5 cm A MONTELUPO MAIOLICA VASE, 17TH CENTURY; WORN, SOME FIRING DEFECTS AND GLAZE LOSSES, DAMAGES Berti identifies two other examples from the same workshop (F. Berti, Capolavori della maiolica rinascimentale. Montelupo 'fabbrica' di Firenze 1400-1630, exhibition catalogue, Florence 2002, card 138, p. 143) one now in the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, the other in a private Tuscan collection.