Italian Armorial Maiolica Albarello Circa.1700

Italian Armorial Maiolica Albarello Circa.1700A lovely Italian maiolica armorial albarello, probably Venice, late 17th early 18th century, of dumbbell form, painted to the waisted centre with a scroll inscribed 'BENEDETTA LAX', above an armorial crest framed in yellow and blue with scrollwork and painted with a tree flanked by the letters 'D' and 'I', the rest of the body painted in blue with berried foliage, height 20cm (minor restoration and faults). Benedicta (Benedetta) laxativa is a laxative

Watercolour drawing on laid paper on original mount

and in 1923

Julie Hugo was born in Paris

Coloured chalks on paper laid onto original canvas early 19th

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John Austen 1886-1948

is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at

artistic and intellectual figures of the day

the Design Museum

where he developed an appreciation for historical subjects under the guidance of Henry Fuseli and James Barry

Exhibited: London Arts Council of Great Britain "That's Shell that is" 1983/4 Cat

He was buried in Westminster Abbey