Majolica Olla and Stand

Description:

Majolica Olla and Stand, Italy, 19th century, modeled with two loop handles, polychrome decorated with central reserve portrait framed within a ground of flowers and scrolled foliage, ht. 23 3/4 in.; the stand with cantered sides and similar ground decoration, dia. 16 in.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

Olla: top rim with typical glaze loss and minor chipping; footrim half missing glaze; irregular 7" firing crack in a Y shape starting at foot; one scroll at the base of a hande mostly missing; some glaze loss to handle edges and along raised banding.
Stand: minor areas of glaze loss.

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