IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74288 accession number: C.2B-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware. The exterior is covered with very shiny tin glaze, the interior is more thinly glazed, and the base unglazed. One side has a fault in the glaze. Painted in dark and pale blue, yellow, orange, and a little manganese-purple. Baluster-shaped with cylindrical neck, short upright spout, and broad strap handle. Below the handle there is a scroll inscribed `OXIMEL SIMP x' in blue gothic script. The rest of the body and the handle are decorated with `gothic' foliage. On the front of the spout there is a palmette and arrow-shaped splodges. Round the neck between yellow and blue horizontal bands of different widths, there are fan-like palmettes, dots and arrow-shaped splodges, and, round the lower part, a continuous fish-bone between yellow and blue bands of different widths. object type: Maiolica spouted pharmacy jar, painted in blue, yellow, orange, and purple, with a scroll inscribed `OXIMEL SIMP x', surrounded by fan-like palmettes, dots and arrow-shaped splodges. title: pharmacy jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Alfred Spero, London, £160 with two other pieces. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74288 TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1470 - 1500 creation date earliest: 1470 creation date latest: 1500 culture: Renaissance culture: 15th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Pesaro potter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 17 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Italian Maiolica The Concise Encyclopedia of Continental Pottery and Porcelain L'antica maiolica di Pesaro dal XIV al XVII secolo Alla ricerca degli antichi vasi di farmacia italiani Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/C_2B_1932_1_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_C_2B_1932_1_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/C_2B_1932_1_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 768 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/preview_C_2B_1932_1_201407_jas244_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: 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