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Maker: Unknown
Maiolica pharmacy or storage jar, painted in polychrome with fruit and foliage.
Cream earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior and rather thinly on the interior; rim and base unglazed. Painted in bright blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-brown. The sides are decorated with fruit and foliage and above and below there are borders of blue criss-crosses between horizontal bands.
History note: Unknown.
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest
Height: 33.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1960) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
Renaissance
16th Century
Circa
1550
CE
-
1600
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( in bright blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-brown)
Rim
Diameter 16.5 cm
Base
Diameter 17.1 cm
Widest Part
Width 22.5 cm
rim and base unglazed
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Tin-glazing : Cream earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior and rather thinly on the interior; rim and base unglazed. Painted in bright blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-brown.
Accession number: C.93-1961
Primary reference Number: 76404
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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