IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73288 accession number: C.2249-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange with a putto striding, holding a bird and a quartieri decoration. 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 (Typed Cat. 1094). 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/73288 PEOPLE ------------------- putto SUBJECTS ------------------- bird foliage rock bird foliage rock TECHNIQUES ---------- 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. throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1545 - 1570 creation date earliest: 1545 creation date latest: 1570 culture: 16th Century, Mid culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Calamelli, Virgiliotto DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Italian Maiolica Maioliche italiane del Seicento e Settecento Ceramica italiana dalle origini a oggi 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_2249_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_2249_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_2249_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_2249_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_2249_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_2249_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_2249_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_2249_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels