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Maiolica spouted pharmacy jar, painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange with Minerva holding a spear and the Palladium.
Spouted pharmacy jar. Tin-glazed thickly overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange.
Bulbous body with cylindrical neck and carinated rim, straight, upward-tilting spout springing from the shoulder, scroll handle of D-section, and circular spreading foot with a knop at its junction with the body.
On the front, Minerva, holding a spear in her right hand and the Palladium in her left, stands beside a tree; on each side of her there is a temple on a mound, with hills and smaller buildings in the distance. Above her on the spout, there is a lozenge surrounded by foliage, and below her, the name of the contents `MEL.VIOLATVM', between horizontal bands. The rim, foot, and knop are decorated with scalloped borders, that on the foot incomplete.
History note: Countess Howard de Walden; Thomas Sutton, Eastbourne, from whom purchased in 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher * 45/- (Typed Cat. 1090).
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 26.0 cm
Width: 21.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century#
Circa
1600
-
1650
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( in blue, green, yellow, and orange)
Rim
Diameter 11.3 cm
Foot
Diameter 11.6 cm
Tin-glazing : Tin-glazed thickly overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange.
Accession number: C.2198-1928
Primary reference Number: 73213
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: C.181-1991
Accession Number: C.2187-1928
Accession Number: EC.26-1945
Accession Number: C.889-1927
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