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Maker: Unknown (Probably)
Maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in polychrome with, on the front and back, oval panels each containing a different woman's head.
Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white on the exterior and very thinly on the interior; base unglazed. Painted in thick greyish-blue, green, yellow, orange, and brown.
Broad albarello with curved shoulders, short neck and flat rim, which has warped in firing.
On the front and back are oval panels bordered by two blue bands, each containing a different woman's head, surrounded by orange lines on a yellow ground. The sides are decorated with a stylised flower and foliage reserved in a blue ground incised with curved strokes. On the shoulder and above the base are single orange bands flanked by blue.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Height: 25.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
17th Century#
Circa
1600
-
1630
This jar is decorated in the Venetian style of the second half of the 16th century, but the thick, crude painting suggests that it was made in the early 17th century, and probably at Gerace in Calabria, rather than at Venice
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( thick greyish-blue, green, yellow, orange, and brown)
Base
Diameter 14.9 cm
Rim
Diameter 15.6 cm
Widest Part
Diameter 20.5 cm
base unglazed
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white on the exterior and very thinly on the interior; base unglazed. Painted in thick greyish-blue, green, yellow, orange, and brown.
Accession number: C.249-1991
Primary reference Number: 73593
Packing number: EURCER 377
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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