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Potter: Unidentified Castel Durante potter (Probably)
Tin-glazed and painted earthenware pharmacy jar, labelled `VNGTO D CERVSA'
Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior and exterior; rim and base unglazed. Painted in thinly applied blue, green, yellow, and orange.Waisted albarello.
On the front there is an oval panel crossed by a label inscribed in blue `VNGTO D CERVSA', with above, the badge of a pharmacy: `d c B' joined and surmounted by a four-armed cross; and below, within a circle, three mounts and a cross flanked by the letters `.D.' and `.G.'. The rest of the main field is decorated with formal foliage and fruits. Round the lower part there are three horizontal blue bands and a yellow band; on the shoulder, slanting leaves between two sets of three horizontal blue bands; and round the rim, a yellow band. `L2/2' is incised into the base.
History note: Countess Howard de Walden; Thomas Sutton, Eastbourne, from whom purchased in February 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 11.9 cm
Height: 22.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1530
CE
-
1560
CE
Previously attributed to Faenza and Deruta. The jar held unguentum cerussa, white lead ointment. The `L' on the base is probably an indication of weight, standing for libbre (pounds).
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, and orange)
Base
Diameter 10.1 cm
Rim
Diameter 9.0 cm
Throwing
: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior and exterior; rim and base unglazed. Painted in thinly applied blue, green, yellow, and orange.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.2187-1928
Primary reference Number: 79266
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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