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Maker:
Unidentified Castel Durante potter
(Probably)
Maker:
Unidentified Pesaro potter
(Perhaps)
Maiolica pharmacy bottle, painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange, with a scroll, on the front, inscribed `C DE FENOCHI'.
Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall, the interior appearing cream. Painted in blue, yellowish-green, yellow, and orange. The bottle has a bulbous body with a cylindrical neck which expands towards the rim, and stands on a very low foot.
On the front is a scroll inscribed in blue Roman capitals `C DE FENOCHI'. The ends of the scroll are painted blue, yellow, and orange. The rest of the surface is decorated with softly serrated leaves on branching stems. Round the foot, between pairs of narrow horizontal blue bands, is a wavy stem with leaves in the spaces above and below it. A blue band encircles the rim.
History note: Unknown
Given by E.S. Peck
Diameter: 15.4 cm
Height: 22.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1952-07-31) by Peck, Ernest Saville
Renaissance
16th Century, second half#
Circa
1550
CE
-
1600
CE
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: This colourful spouted pharmacy bottle was designed originally to contain a syrup made with fennel, as indicated by its label, ‘C[onfectio]. DE. FENOCHI’, meaning ‘decoction of fennel’, obtained by heating or boiling the plant to extract its essence. Fennel was often used as a diuretic for weight loss, and in a variety of remedies. Probably Castel Durante, Le Marche, Italy, c.1550–1600.
Probably made in Castel Durante, or in Pesaro.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, yellowish-green, yellow, and orange)
Tin-glazing : Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall, the interior appearing cream. Painted in blue, yellowish-green, yellow, and orange.
Accession number: C.5-1952
Primary reference Number: 79302
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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