A Hispano-moresque lustre pottery albarello or drug jar, Spain, 15th Century

of tall waisted form on thick broad foot, with narrow shoulder, short cylindrical neck and slightly everted rim, decorated over a cobalt blue glaze with leaves and palmettes in a copper lustre

In overall good condition, with minor chips and loss of glaze to extremities, with a single, hairline crack along one side of surface, as viewed.
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A similar albarello is found in the Kuwait National Museum Collection, LNS 91 C (illustrated in Jenkins 1983).