Two-handled Maiolica pharmacy jar or drug jar

An image of Tin-glazed Earthenware / Two-handled pharmacy jar or drug jar. On the front, a woman in a landscape surrounded by grotesques. Red earthenware, the interior lead-glazed; the exterior tin-glazed, but applied thinly on the back and appearing pinkish-grey in places. Painted in blue, green, and yellow. Maiolica, height, whole, 37.0 cm, diameter, rim, 15.8 cm, diameter, base, 15.5 cm, width, whole, 30.1 cm, circa 1510-1530. Renaissance. Italy, Tuscany, Siena (perhaps).

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Tin-glazed Earthenware / Two-handled pharmacy jar or drug jar. On the front, a woman in a landscape surrounded by grotesques. Red earthenware, the interior lead-glazed; the exterior tin-glazed, but applied thinly on the back and appearing pinkish-grey in places. Painted in blue, green, and yellow. Maiolica, height, whole, 37.0 cm, diameter, rim, 15.8 cm, diameter, base, 15.5 cm, width, whole, 30.1 cm, circa 1510-1530. Renaissance. Italy, Tuscany, Siena (perhaps).

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Accession Number: C.185-1991
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/45.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 756 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 234.32kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 45/1
Captured: 2012:09:27 14:19:31

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16th Century Artistic Movement Date Department Fitz_AA High Renaissance Italian Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Renaissance Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC _WF_PCtd container dispensing pot dolphin drug pot earthenware female glazed grotesque handled jar lead-glazed maiolica pharmacy jar pottery two-handled vessel woman

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