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Workshop: Calamelli, Virgiliotto (Probably)
Maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange with a putto striding, holding a bird and a quartieri decoration.
Pharmacy jar. Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. The glaze on the interior is speckled, and has crawled in six places round the rim. Painted in dark blue, green, yellow, and orange.
Extremely waisted albarello with everted rim.
On the front, within an oval frame, a putto strides towards the left, holding a bird in both hands; in the background to right there is a rock in the air. The sides and back are decorated a quartieri with stylised foliage reserved in green, orange, and blue compartments of different shapes. On the shoulder and the sloping area above the base, yellow and orange ribbons interlace around green ovals reserved in a blue ground, with wide yellow and narrow orange bands above and below.
History note: Countess Howard de Walden; Thomas Sutton, Eastbourne, from whom purchased in February 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher (Typed Cat. 1094).
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 19.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
16th Century, Mid
Renaissance
Circa
1545
CE
-
1570
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
Rim
Diameter 11.0 cm
Widest Part
Diameter 12.3 cm
Base
Diameter 9.2 cm
Throwing
: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. The glaze on the interior is speckled, and has crawled in six places round the rim. Painted in dark blue, green, yellow, and orange.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.2249-1928
Primary reference Number: 73288
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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