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’