Of typical dumbbell form with everted rims, one of grey tint with two trailed scroll handles, the domed cover applied with four prunts, 13.7cm high, and two of pale green tint including one with a domed cover, 14.4cm high, and another larger with an ill-fitting double-ogee shaped cover, 17cm high (6)

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Provenance
Lady 'Lili' Maria Elisabeth Augusta Cartwright (née von Sandizell)
Thence by descent to her son, William Cornwallis Cartwright, Aynhoe Park, Oxfordshire
Thence by family descent to the present owner

The shape of these jars originates from ceramic examples. Albarelli of similar form are illustrated and discussed by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.367-79. Another of similar form in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (accession no. OGL-1921-0007) is illustrated by Jet Pijzel-Dommisse and Titus Eliëns, Glinsterend Glas (2009), p.96, no.148. Related jars and covers at San Gimignano are discussed by Guido Vannini, Una Farmacia Preindustriale in Valdelsa (1981), pp.113-20. A collection of eight further albarelli from this collection was sold by Sotheby's on 14 July 1975, lot 275.

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