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Workshop: Pantaleo, Andrea (Probably)
Maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in polychrome, with a half-length figure of a bearded man, a military trophy, and a panel inscribed `SPQP'.
Earthenware, tin-glazed overall, the exterior off-white, the interior greyish-beige. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, grey, and manganese-purple. Extremely waisted albarello with a slightly everted rim.
On the front is an oblong frame with pairs of inward curling scrolls at the top and bottom, enclosing a half-length figure of a bearded man wearing a tall hat. The back is decorated with a military trophy and a panel inscribed `SPQP' (Senatus Populusque Panormitanus) in a blue ground incised with a few curved strokes. Above and below are borders of serrated leaves reserved in an orange ground; on the shoulder and the sloping area above the base, yellow and orange interlacing ribbons in a blue ground. The edge of the base and rim are yellow.
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
Height: 22.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century#
Circa
1610
CE
-
1620
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( in blue, green, yellow, orange, grey, and manganese-purple)
Base
Diameter 10.0 cm
Rim
Diameter 10.5 cm
Widest Part
Diameter 12.5 cm
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed overall, the exterior off-white, the interior greyish-beige. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, grey, and manganese-purple.
Inscription present: on a panel
Accession number: C.2248-1928
Primary reference Number: 80803
Old object number: 1099
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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