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Maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange, with a scroll round the middle inscribed `LOC D FARFA', across a garland of leaves and berries.
Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed off-white on the exterior and interior; base unglazed. The glaze is speckled. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange.
Cylindrical with convex swellings above and below the waist, and a short neck with expanding and everted rim.
Round the middle there is a scroll inscribed in blue Roman capitals `LOC D FARFA', across a garland of leaves and berries with wavy ribbons on each side. The area within the garland is yellow with an orange pomegranate above and below the label. Round the foot and neck there are yellow, orange, and blue horizontal bands.
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: 12.0 cm
Height: 19.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
16th Century, Mid
Renaissance
Circa
1540
CE
-
1570
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, and orange)
Rim
Diameter 10.2 cm
Base
Diameter 8.2 cm
except base
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Throwing
: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed off-white on the exterior and interior; base unglazed. The glaze is speckled. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.2209-1928
Primary reference Number: 79271
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Pharmacy jar" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/79271 Accessed: 2024-12-22 13:34:30
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