Maiolica albarello pharmacy jar

An image of Pharmacy Jar/ Albarello/ Drug Jar. Unknown, potter, The Marches, Castel Durante, probably. Maiolica waisted albarello. On the front there is an oval panel crossed by a label inscribed in blue `VNGTO D CERVSA', with above, the badge of a pharmacy: `d c B' joined and surmounted by a four-armed cross; and below, within a circle, three mounts and a cross flanked by the letters `.D.' and `.G.'. The rest of the main field is decorated with formal foliage and fruits. Round the lower part there are three horizontal blue bands and a yellow band; on the shoulder, slanting leaves between two sets of three horizontal blue bands; and round the rim, a yellow band. `L2/2' is incised into the base. Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior and exterior; rim and base unglazed. Painted in thinly applied blue, green, yellow, and orange. Height, whole, 22.0 cm, diameter, rim, 9.0 cm, diameter, base, 10.1 cm, diameter, whole, 11.9 cm, circa 1530-1560. Renaissance. Production Note: Previously attributed to Faenza and Deruta.

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Pharmacy Jar/ Albarello/ Drug Jar. Unknown, potter, The Marches, Castel Durante, probably. Maiolica waisted albarello. On the front there is an oval panel crossed by a label inscribed in blue `VNGTO D CERVSA', with above, the badge of a pharmacy: `d c B' joined and surmounted by a four-armed cross; and below, within a circle, three mounts and a cross flanked by the letters `.D.' and `.G.'. The rest of the main field is decorated with formal foliage and fruits. Round the lower part there are three horizontal blue bands and a yellow band; on the shoulder, slanting leaves between two sets of three horizontal blue bands; and round the rim, a yellow band. `L2/2' is incised into the base. Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior and exterior; rim and base unglazed. Painted in thinly applied blue, green, yellow, and orange. Height, whole, 22.0 cm, diameter, rim, 9.0 cm, diameter, base, 10.1 cm, diameter, whole, 11.9 cm, circa 1530-1560. Renaissance. Production Note: Previously attributed to Faenza and Deruta.

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Accession Number: C.2187-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/39.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 600 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 151.02kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 39/1

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16th Century Artistic Movement Date Department Fitz_AA Italian Late Renaissance Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Renaissance Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd albarello badge container dispensing pot drug pot earthenware glazed initial inscribed jar label maiolica painted pharmacy jar polychrome tin-glazed

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