APOTHECARY POT called ALBARELLO - Caltagirone, Sicily, Italy - 17th century

APOTHECARY POT called ALBARELLO

Caltagirone, Sicily, Italy, 17th Century

Earthenware

H.: 13; Diameter: 9 cm

Traces of marking on the base

(accidents and restoration)

Italian majolica with slightly hemmed neck and curved belly decorated in a polychrome manner with flowers on a blue background and an oval medallion with a radiant yellow outline depicting Saint Benedict. The abbot wears a white cowl, a black cape, beard and halo. He holds a crozier in his right hand and, in the other, the work he wrote: the rule of Saint Benedict.

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