Jug Large ovoid shaped mug, high neck with extroverted trilobed...

Jug

Large ovoid shaped mug, high neck with extroverted trilobed mouth, wide ribbon handle, disc-shaped stand.
Majolica painted in polychromy: under the trilobus begins a very wide oval formed by yellow lines of two tones that reaches almost up to the foot. Inside, there is a large "Coat of Arms of Pope Clement XI", the century of Giovan Francesco Albani, from Urbino, elected pope in 1700 and deceased in 1721. Above the Triregno and the papal keys and on the sides of the coat of arms there are symbolic clusters of the Della Robbia type and various decorative stylistic elements of fantasy. Around the oval on a blue background graffito decoration in yellow of two tones that recalls the ancient grotesque urbinate - durantina "trophy" in the handle in the curved part at the top of some letters of which unfortunately the first is abraded by use and perhaps was a G. You can interpret as follows: "G? From Cli" meaning "G.. from the Roman Castles".
H. cm. 31; Øb. cm. 15; Ømx. Cm.21. Cond: discreet; consolidation of the majolica surface.

Rome [Castelli romani], majolicaro of Urbino origin, working in one of the Castelli romani , 1700.

The jug is of great interest, both because it is the only known specimen referring to the Pope of Urbino, and because of the testimony of the series of majolica from Urbino since the 16th century and working in Rome, of which there is a large bibliography. There is still a lack of archival research for the eighteenth century; for the artists from the Marche who worked in Rome in the seventeenth century, see a. Bortolotti, Artisti urbinati a Roma prima del secolo XVIII, in "Il Raffaello" (The Raphael), art magazine, a. XIL fasc. 16, pp. 249 -251.