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Production: Unknown (Probably)
Maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in blue, yellow, and manganese with a bust of a young man and 'gothic' foliage.
Earthenware, tin-glazed yellowish-white on the exterior and more thinly on interior showing the body beneath; the base and its outer edge unglazed. The exterior is speckled. Painted in dark blue, greyish-yellow, brownish-yellow, and manganese-purple. The colours are pallid and have run.
Slender waisted albarello. On the front, a bust of a young man wearing a helmet and cuirass faces in profile to left against a brownish-yellow background. Behind him is a contour outline and in front of him, a vertical label inscribed `ANdOIS' or `SIOPNA'. The back is decorated with `gothic' foliage. Above and below are horizontal blue bands of different widths; on the neck, pale manganese Ss between pairs of horizontal blue bands.
History note: Unknown.
F. Leverton Harris Bequest
Diameter: 17.4 cm
Height: 21.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, Frederick Leverton
15th Century, Late
Renaissance
Circa
1490
CE
-
1500
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( in dark blue, greyish-yellow, brownish-yellow, and manganese-purple)
Rim
Diameter 10.2 cm
Foot
Diameter 12.0 cm
Throwing
: Earthenware, tin-glazed yellowish-white on the exterior and more thinly on interior showing the body beneath; the base and its outer edge unglazed. The exterior is speckled. Painted in dark blue, greyish-yellow, brownish-yellow, and manganese-purple.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.110-1927
Primary reference Number: 71317
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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