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Maker: Unknown (Perhaps)
Renaissance maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in polychrome with, on the front, a bust of a woman and, on the back, a nude infant boy holding a windmill.
Reddish buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in bright blue, green, yellow, dark yellow, brownish-orange, and black.Waisted albarello with short neck and sloping shoulders, tapering slightly towards the projecting base.
The front is decorated with an oval panel containing a bust of a woman wearing a striped cap, in profile to left, reserved in a blue ground. On the other side is an oval panel containing a nude infant boy holding a windmill, standing in grass. Both panels are framed by yellow half-leaves and are separated by stylised scrolling foliage and yellow flowers. The shoulder and the area above the base are decorated with black scrolls on a yellow ground. `L 2/4' is incised into the base.
History note: Dr Alfred Pringsheim; Sotheby's, 7 June 1939, Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, lot 45; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest
Diameter: 12.3 cm
Height: 20.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1530
CE
-
1550
CE
The jar was attributed to Deruta when sold in 1939, but the bust seems more akin to belle donne on maiolica from the Marches, and the bright colouring, particularly the yellow and green, is unlike maiolica from Deruta. The girl's head is comparable to that on C.136-1933, which is surrounded by trophies of the type associated with Castel Durante.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( bright blue, green, yellow, dark yellow, brownish-orange, and black)
Rim
Diameter 10.0 cm
Base
Diameter 10.7 cm
base unglazed
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Throwing
: Reddish buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in bright blue, green, yellow, dark yellow, brownish-orange, and black.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.269-1991
Primary reference Number: 73914
Packing number: EURCER 318
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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