GOBLET WITH A BOSS AND MOULDED SURFACE ("CRESPINA")

Dm. 39 cm.
Majolica.
Faenza, workshop of Virgiliotto Calamelli, c. 1575.
Condition: good.
Inv. n. 21156/c.

On the central boss is the compendiary style figure of a young knight, with a classic plumed helmet (he may be the very popular Roman soldier Marcus Curtius, mentioned earlier goblet with flattened rim), against a background of soft pure white enamelling; on the inside of the gobblet's foot is the monogramme "VR.FA." (Virgiliotto di Faenza); this goblet is a characteristic example of great quality, of the art of the so called Faenza "whites".