IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71523 accession number: C.1-1969 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. The glaze is thinly applied on the interior particularly near the rim. Painted in greyish-blue, dark green, pale green, yellow, orange, brown, and manganese. Wide-mouthed, slightly waisted albarello. On the front there is a vertical panel containing a dromedary standing in profile to left beside a tree. On each side there is a yellow line between narrower brown and similar lines run round the jar above and below. The yellow band at the bottom is inscribed `Camello' in brown. The back is inscribed in manganese, `P.B.' underlined over `1760' underlined. object type: Maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in polychrome with a dromedary. title: pharmacy jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased by the donor's father in Oxford about 1908. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by J. Tillotson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71523 SUBJECTS ------------------- camel tree camel tree TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed greyish-white on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. The glaze is thinly applied on the interior particularly near the rim. Painted in greyish-blue, dark green, pale green, yellow, orange, brown, and manganese. throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 25.0 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- La ceramica di Vietri sul Mare dalle origini all'Ottocento Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_1_1969_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_1_1969_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_1_1969_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_1_1969_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_1_1969_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_1_1969_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_1_1969_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_1_1969_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels