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Maker: Unknown (Uncertain)
Maiolica spouted pharmacy jar, painted in blue with a deer, a bird and foliage.
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall except for the base, with patches of brown speckling. Painted in blue.
Globular with a cylindrical neck and everted rim, circular spreading foot, straight cylindrical spout rising from the shoulder, and strap handle with a slight longitudinal depression.
A wide label running round the lower part of the body is inscribed `Olle Sanbucini' between knots below the handle, and is vertically striped at the front. Above on one side there is a deer amid foliage and on the other, a bird amid foliage. The neck, lower part, and spout are decorated with mock gadrooning. There are three horizontal bands below the rim, two between each of the four zones of decoration, and two sets of three with oblique strokes between them on the foot. The outside of the handle is decorated with two flowers and foliage.
History note: William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, part of lot 80; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Height: 19.9 cm
Width: 18.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
17th Century#
Circa
1630
CE
-
1680
CE
Albisola or Savona
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( in blue)
Rim
Diameter 10.6 cm
Base
Diameter 9.3 cm
Body
except base
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Accession number: C.255-1991
Primary reference Number: 73703
Packing number: EURCER 343
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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