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Potter: Unknown (Probably)
Maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange with four striped oval motifs, separated by beads, tendrils, and buds.
Earthenware, tin-glazed overall but thinly on the interior where the fabric shows through it and there are some unglazed areas. Painted in dark blue with a little green, yellow, and brownish-orange. Slender waisted albarello.
On the side are four striped oval motifs separated by beads coloured yellow, brownish-orange, and green. Above and below the beads are tendrils and buds. The lower part is encircled by four horizontal bands of different widths, and the shoulder by a row of spots with one narrow and one wide horizontal band above and below.
History note: Alessandro Imbert; Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome, from which purchased in 1919 by F. Leverton Harris.
F. Leverton Harris Bequest
Height: 19.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, F. Leverton, The Right Hon.
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1500
CE
-
1550
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( in dark blue with a little green, yellow, and brownish-orange)
Base
Diameter 8.3 cm
Rim
Diameter 9.4 cm
Widest Part
Width 10.8 cm
Throwing
: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall but thinly on the interior where the fabric shows through it and there are some unglazed areas. Painted in dark blue with a little green, yellow, and brownish-orange.
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: circular
Accession number: C.93-1927
Primary reference Number: 76399
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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