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Maiolica spouted pharmacy jar, painted in blue and yellow with a label inscribed `Syo: D RIBES' on the front, with below a pharmacy badge of two doves drinking from a chalice.
Earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior and interior. Painted in watery dark blue and a little yellow. Globular with cylindrical neck expanding slightly towards the rim, short straight spout rising from the shoulder, and strap handle.
On the front is a rectangular label inscribed `Syo: D RIBES' with below, a pharmacy badge of two doves drinking from a chalice. The space surrounding them and above the label is decorated with delicate stems of foliage enclosed by an approximately circular border of similar foliage. Wavy ribbons extend on each side. The spout is decorated with horizontal and vertical lines with lobes at the bottom. Below the handle is the date `1673' between groups of short horizontal lines.
Given by E.S. Peck
Height: 20.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1952-07-31) by Peck, Ernest Saville
17th Century, third quarter#
Production date:
dated
AD 1673
: dated
Label text from the exhibition ‘Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500–1800’, on display at The Fitzwilliam Museum from 26 November 2019 until 31 August 2020: One-handled spouted pharmacy jar for the Camaldolensian convent, Arezzo This pharmacy jar’s inscription, ‘Syo: D RIBES’ (‘syrup of currants’), tells us that it was designed originally to hold blackcurrant or redcurrant syrup, believed to help with coughs or lung ailments but also used as a food flavouring and colouring. The doves drinking from the chalice on the front indicate that it was made for the pharmacy of the Camaldolensian convent near Arezzo. Its white ground with light blue glaze decoration deliberately imitates more expensive, highly fashionable blue-and-white porcelain wares imported from China. Probably Deruta, Umbria, Italy, 1673
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( watery dark blue and a little yellow)
Rim
Diameter 11.2 cm
Foot
Diameter 9.3 cm
Handle To Spout
Width 20.5 cm
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior and interior. Painted in watery dark blue and a little yellow.
Accession number: C.7-1952
Primary reference Number: 75906
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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