Italy 1662
This blue decorated spout jug was created in a manufactory for a monastery pharmacy and was used to hold a medicinal essence, inscribed on a painted inscription “AQ(UA)DI LATTUCA”. Below the painted inscription is shown a portrait of a Jesuit, probably of St. Ignatius of Loyola, in an oval medallion dated 1662.
The impressively balanced shape of this ovoid ceramic jug with spout and double ear handle, which ends with double spiral tendrils, is highly unusual and very impressively harmonious.
Height: 35 cm