IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 48315 accession number: C.185-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. Albarello with straight sides, sloping shoulders, a short neck with a groove below the projecting rim and two handles, each composed of three rolls of clay pressed together, with upturned terminals. The front is decorated with a circular medallion containing a woman standing in a landscape with trees and buildings. She rests her right hand on a shield, and holds a spear in her left. The medallion is surrounded by symmetrical grotesques, including dolphins, flaming torches and foliated scrolls, reserved in a rectangular blue panel. A wide label with pairs of blue horizontal bands above and below, encircles the lower part of the jar. The front is inscribed in blue. Below, and on the shoulder at the front, there are foliated scrolls painted in blue alla porcellana. The handles and rim are green. object type: Renaissance maiolica two-handled pharmacy jar, painted in blue, green and yellow with, on the front, a woman in a landscape surrounded by grotesques. title: pharmacy jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr Alfred Pringsheim; Sotheby's, 7 June 1939, lot 43; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: H.S. Reitlinger creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48315 PEOPLE ------------------- woman grotesque SUBJECTS ------------------- shield torch spear dolphin tree landscape buildings shield torch spear dolphin tree landscape buildings CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1510 - 1530 creation date earliest: 1510 creation date latest: 1530 culture: 16th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 37 dimension: Width units: cm value: 30.1 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica Die Alte Apotheke Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance Italian Renaissance Ceramics: A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, Volume I and Volume II Majoliques italiennes du Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Lyon. Collection Gillet Majoliques italiennes de la Renaissance, Collection Paul Gillet, Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Lyon La maiolica senese del Rinascimento Contributo all a conoscenze della maiolica senese 'Not in Rackham' - Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part 1 Italian Renaissance Maiolica Âge d’or de la Faïence italienne au XVIe siècle --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_185_1991_1_201210_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 756 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_c_185_1991_1_201210_amt49_mas.jpg height: 677 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_185_1991_1_201210_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 756 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/preview_c_185_1991_1_201210_amt49_mas.jpg height: 339 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_185_1991_4_2012010_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 742 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_c_185_1991_4_2012010_amt49_mas.jpg height: 690 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_185_1991_4_2012010_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 742 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/preview_c_185_1991_4_2012010_amt49_mas.jpg height: 345 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_185_1991_3_201210_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 627 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_c_185_1991_3_201210_amt49_mas.jpg height: 817 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_185_1991_3_201210_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 627 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/preview_c_185_1991_3_201210_amt49_mas.jpg height: 408 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_185_1991_2_201210_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 739 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_c_185_1991_2_201210_amt49_mas.jpg height: 693 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_185_1991_2_201210_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 739 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/preview_c_185_1991_2_201210_amt49_mas.jpg height: 346 pixels width: 250 pixels