IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73276 accession number: C.2235-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in blue. Ovoid with flat base, cylindrical neck, and two handles, each formed of two contiguous rolls of clay, separating into coils at the lower end on either side of a projecting circular stud. The two rolls are held together at the top and above the coils by a horizontal strip of clay and a circular stud. The front is decorated with a coast scene with mountains, buildings beside a cliff, a sailing boat, and five figures: three fishing and two standing further inland. Below, there are three horizontal bands, a zone of mock gadrooning, and five horizontal bands. At the junction of the neck and shoulder there is a scalloped line, and on the neck, mock gadrooning between sets of three horizontal bands. On each side of the handle there are three vertical lines flanking horizontal strokes. The handles are vertically striped; the cross bands are blue and the studs are decorated with concentric circles. The back is dated `1729', with a complex figure-of-eight flourish terminating the `9', and another above. object type: Maiolica two-handled pharmacy jar, painted in blue with a coast scene on the front, and the date '1729' on the back. title: pharmacy jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Countess Howard de Walden; Thomas Sutton, Eastbourne, from whom purchased in February 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher. For information on provenance see MS Catalogue 1119 and Typed Catalogue 1119. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73276 TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1729 - 1729 creation date earliest: 1729 creation date latest: 1729 culture: 1720s culture: 18th Century, first half CREATORS -------- maker: Massa, Donato DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 51.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Loan Exhibition of Pottery and Porcelain held in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- A Catalogue of A Loan Exhibition of Pottery and Porcelain held in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, May 26th-June 14th, 1902 Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge La Ceramica a Vietri e nel Salernitano dal VI al XIX secolo Note inedite sulle famiglie Massa e Giustiniano maiolicari del settecento napoletano La farmacia degli Incurabili e la maiolica napoletana del settecento La maiolica dell'età barocca La maiolica napoletana del settecento Cannes de Collection Lilian et Euro Capellini, Étains, Curiosités, Haute-Époque --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2235_1928_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_2235_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2235_1928_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_2235_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2235_1928_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_2235_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2235_1928_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_2235_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels