IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 79480 accession number: C.2A-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 25 August 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale yellowish buff earthenware, the exterior is covered with very shiny tin glaze, the interior is more thinly glazed, and the base unglazed. Spouted jar. Painted in dark blue, yellowish-green, and yellow. Below the handle there is a scroll inscribed in blue gothic letters 'S D CIDRI'. The rest of the body and handle are covered with scrolling foliage bearing parti-coloured fruits. On the front of the spout there is a peacock's feather eye motif and dots. The neck is decorated with fan-like palmettes and splodges between yellow and blue lines of varying widths. Round the lower part of the body there is a continuous fish-bone between yellow and blue lines of different widths. object type: Maiolica spouted pharmacy jar, painted in blue, green, and yellow, with a scroll inscribed 'S D CIDRI' scrolling foliage, and splodges. title: spouted pharmacy jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Alfred Spero, London. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/79480 TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1470 - 1500 creation date earliest: 1470 creation date latest: 1500 culture: 15th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 24 dimension: Width units: cm value: 17.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Italian Maiolica The Concise Encyclopedia of Continental Pottery and Porcelain L'antica maiolica di Pesaro dal XIV al XVII secolo Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge ---