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p. 490, caption: for 191 DOWN read 191 BASE.
No. 191: This piece was placed under sequestro giudiziario in 1999 and returned to the owner
in 2003. It was subsequently (2004) in the Tondolo collection, Bari, and was republished in M.
R. Proterra (ed.) L’Antica Ceramica da Farmacia di Castelli, exhib. cat., Teramo, Castelli, and
Rome, 2004, no. 8. It was acquired by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia in 2006
(see introductory note) and is republished by Wilson and Sani 2006, no. 80.
The photograph of the underside on p. 490 is of 193, not of 191.
No. 191: Add to bibliography:
Semenzato, Florence, 18 June 1991, lot 48; Antonio Corvi, La Farmacia Italiana dalle
origini all'età moderna (Ospedaletto, Pisa, 1997), p. 168.
p. 491, no. 192: line 5 of text: for turbanned read turbaned
Sold Paris (Drouot: Féral, Leman), 7 March 1923, collection of Monsieur J. N., lot 47.
This piece was sold at Semenzato, Florence, 15 December 2001, lot 136, and illustrated in
CeramicAntica anno 12, no. 1 (January 2002), p. 68, where it was stated to have been sold for
113,050,000 lire. Now Frizzi Baccioni collection, Florence. See L. Colapinto, P. Casati
Migliorini, and R. Magnani, Vasi di farmacia del Rinascimento italiano da collezioni private,
Ferrara 2002, no. 79; and M. R. Proterra (ed.), L’Antica Ceramica da Farmacia di Castelli,
exhib. cat., Teramo, Castelli, and Rome, 2004, no. 4.
No. 193: This piece was placed under sequestro giudiziario in 1999 and returned to the owner
in 2003. It was subsequently (2004) in the Tondolo collection, Bari, and was republished in M.
R. Proterra (ed.) L’Antica Ceramica da Farmacia di Castelli, exhib. cat., Teramo, Castelli, and
Rome, 2004, no. 3. It was acquired by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia in 2006
(see introductory note) and is republished by Wilson and Sani 2006, no. 81.
p. 494: A photograph of the scratched marks in the base should have been included.
No. 194: This piece was offered for sale at Antonina, Rome, Importante collezione di maioliche
rinascimentali provenienti da una committenza privata, 16-18 December 2008, lot 800.
No. 194: Another Castelli drug jar with an abortive sketch on the back is in the Wernher
Collection, displayed at Ranger’s House, Blackheath, London; see T. Wilson, “The Wernher
Collection of Italian maiolica”, Apollo 155 (May 2002), figs 12-13.
No. 196: This piece was placed under sequestro giudiziario in 1999 and returned to the owner
in 2003. It was acquired by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia in 2006 (see
introductory note) and is republished by Wilson and Sani 2006, no. 82.
See also Luciana Arbace, Museo della Ceramica Duca di Martina: la maiolica italiana (Naples
1996), no. 151.
Wares of this type are attributed to Naples, perhaps by mebers of the Pompeis family who had
moved there, by G. Donatone, “La produzione compendiaria castellano-napoletana dei Pompei
e dei Filippegna (alias de Filippo) tra Cinque e Seicento”, Centro studi per la storia della
ceramica meridionale, Quaderno 2003, pp. 15-50.
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