Italian lustre-glazed majolica two handled vase by Rubboli
This piece of Italian majolica or tin-glazed faience was made by the renowned Rubboli family pottery in the Umbrian town of Gualdo Tadino, Perugia, and dates to the period 1920 - 1931. It is decorated in yellow scrolling acanthus on a royal blue background in a band with copper-coloured flowers and detailing. The handles are supported on male masks (slightly wild looking) and there are further bands of decoration at the rim and the foot and stem. The whole is finished in the renowned lustre glaze which imitates Renaissance majolica of the 15th-17th centuries
The factory was founded in the late 1800s by one of Italy's most celebrated Renaissance-revival ceramists, Paolo Rubboli (1838-1890) and continued under the directorship of Paulo Rubboli's son Alberto Rubboli and Giuseppe Baduel. The underside of the piece bears the blue underglaze Rubboli family "Società Ceramica Umbra" mark consisting of the letters “SCU” within a triangle along with the entwined Paolo Rubboli 'PR' monogram, which was used from 1920 to 1931.
- Height approx. 20.5cm
- Width approx. 31cm including handles
- Diameter approx. 17.5cm at rim
There is a slight spiral glaze crack in the bottom of the bowl but this is not structural and does not affect the appearance or integrity of the piece and a slight graze to the glaze on the rim (as is often the case with majolica pieces).
