IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73213
accession number:	C.2198-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: Maiolica spouted pharmacy jar, painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange with Minerva holding a spear and the Palladium.
title:	pharmacy jar

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Countess Howard de Walden; Thomas Sutton, Eastbourne, from whom purchased in 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher * 45/- (Typed Cat. 1090).


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73213

PEOPLE
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Minerva

SUBJECTS
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spear
tree
temple
spear
tree
temple



TECHNIQUES
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Tin-glazed thickly overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange.
tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1600 - 1650
creation date earliest:	1600
creation date latest:	1650
culture:	17th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 26.0

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 21.7



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Loan Exhibition of Pottery and Porcelain held in the Fitzwilliam Museum
title:	Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum
CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Apothecary Jars
Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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