A LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY HISPANO-MORESQUE LUSTRE VASE COPY AFTER THE ‘ALHAMBRA VASE’ PART OF THE ORIGINAL FURNISHINGS OF THE PALACE AT GRANADA, SPAIN Probably Venice, circa 1890 The body of baluster form, on a splayed ‘trumpet’ foot with a flared mouth having two scallop-edged ‘wing’ handles. With a cobalt and lustre decoration of repeated vine leaves and rosettes on a cream ground; the moth, foot and shoulder having solid lustre bands. 34cm (13.5 inches) high. Other known versions: • A pair of identical vases were sold at Sotheby’s in October 2008’s ‘Arts of the Islamic World,’ lot 308, for £10,000 • A single example is held in the collection of the Museo delle Porcellane di Doccia and illustrated in ‘Eredita dell’Islam: Arte Islamica en Italia’
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Mar 25, 2016
COPY AFTER THE ‘ALHAMBRA VASE’ PART OF THE ORIGINAL FURNISHINGS OF THE PALACE AT GRANADA, SPAIN
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A LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY HISPANO-MORESQUE LUSTRE VASE
COPY AFTER THE ‘ALHAMBRA VASE’ PART OF THE ORIGINAL FURNISHINGS OF THE PALACE AT GRANADA, SPAIN
Probably Venice, circa 1890
The body of baluster form, on a splayed ‘trumpet’ foot with a flared mouth having two scallop-edged ‘wing’ handles. With a cobalt and lustre decoration of repeated vine leaves and rosettes on a cream ground; the moth, foot and shoulder having solid lustre bands.
34cm (13.5 inches) high.
Other known versions:
• A pair of identical vases were sold at Sotheby’s in October 2008’s ‘Arts of the Islamic World,’ lot 308, for £10,000
• A single example is held in the collection of the Museo delle Porcellane di Doccia and illustrated in ‘Eredita dell’Islam: Arte Islamica en Italia’
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