In the first semester of 2018, the department of Ceramics and Glassware recorded the sale of a glazed terracotta tondo made by Della Robbia’s workshop, with the image of the “Virgin and the Child in a garland”, sold for 13,750 euro. A rare plate made in a furnace in Montelupo in around 1550 decorated in the “porcelain style” depicting a monatto (a corpse carrier during epidemics), which went under the hammer for 5,250 euro. Another glazed terracotta tondo, portraying a veiled nun, made in a Tuscan furnace in the Robbia style, probably between the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth century, was sold for 5,000 euro. Finally, a fine coffee pot by Giorgio Rossetti decorated in the “Bearin” style, made between 1728 and 1736, sold for 4,750 euro. A cream-coloured pottery group, 1801 – 1816, depicting the so-called “Farnese Bull”, probably made in a furnace belonging to the manufacture of Malvica, Palermo, which went under the hammer for 4,375.
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