Maiolica spouted pharmacy jar with a scroll

An image of Maiolica. Spouted pharmacy jar. Unknown potter, The Marches, Pesaro. Below the handle there is a scroll inscribed `OXIMEL SIMP x' in blue gothic script. The rest of the body and the handle are decorated with `gothic' foliage. On the front of the spout there is a palmette and arrow-shaped splodges. Round the neck between yellow and blue horizontal bands of different widths, there are fan-like palmettes, dots and arrow-shaped splodges, and, round the lower part, a continuous fish-bone between yellow and blue bands of different widths. Pale buff earthenware, thrown, the exterior tin-glazed, painted in dark and pale blue, yellow, orange, and a little manganese-purple, height, whole, 24.2 cm, diameter, rim, 9.5 cm, diameter, base, 10.5 cm, width, whole, 17.0 cm, circa 1470-1500. Renaissance.

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Maiolica. Spouted pharmacy jar. Unknown potter, The Marches, Pesaro. Below the handle there is a scroll inscribed `OXIMEL SIMP x' in blue gothic script. The rest of the body and the handle are decorated with `gothic' foliage. On the front of the spout there is a palmette and arrow-shaped splodges. Round the neck between yellow and blue horizontal bands of different widths, there are fan-like palmettes, dots and arrow-shaped splodges, and, round the lower part, a continuous fish-bone between yellow and blue bands of different widths. Pale buff earthenware, thrown, the exterior tin-glazed, painted in dark and pale blue, yellow, orange, and a little manganese-purple, height, whole, 24.2 cm, diameter, rim, 9.5 cm, diameter, base, 10.5 cm, width, whole, 17.0 cm, circa 1470-1500. Renaissance.

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Accession Number: C.2B-1932
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 768 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 179.18kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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