IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 81370 accession number: C.75-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 23 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white on the interior and exterior; most of the rim and base unglazed. Painted in manganese, dark relief-blue, and a little green. Shape 42. Ovoid with flat base, short cylindrical neck and two strap handles. On one side there is a hound running to the left and, on the other, a hound running to the right, surrounded by sprays of oak leaves with dots and dashes in the background. On each side of the handles, there are three vertical manganese lines, on the outside of which are short horizontal manganese strokes separated by blue spots. Round the lower part of the body there are two horizontal manganese bands; round the neck, alternating manganese chevrons and blue spots between pairs of manganese bands. The handles are decorated with a crutch with a green shaft, a series of horizontal manganese lines, and blue spots. Below each handle are two manganese six-armed asterisks with blue dots at the end of the strokes. object type: Renaissance maiolica two-handled pharmacy jar, painted in manganese, dark relief blue and green with hounds, 'oak leaves', dots and dashes. title: two-handled jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Otto Beit (1865-1930); Sir Alfred Beit (1903-94); Sotheby's, 16 October 1942, Catalogue of important Italian majolica, the property of Sir Alfred Beit Bt, MP., lot 5; Louis C.G. Clarke (1881-1960) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/81370 PEOPLE ------------------- Beit, Alfred, Sir Beit, Otto, Sir SUBJECTS ------------------- pharmacy hounds oak oak leaf hounds oak oak leaf TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1427 - 1431 creation date earliest: 1427 creation date latest: 1431 culture: 15th Century, second quarter# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Giunta di Tugio maker: Maso and Miniato di Domenico DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Saving Bodies, Saving Souls: Hospitals in History CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Possession of Mr Otto Beit Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica Museo Nazionale di Firenze, Palazzo del Bargello, Catalogo delle maioliche Italian Maiolica Storia della maiolica di Firenze e del contado secoli XIV e XV Zaffera e similia nella maiolica italiana Florentine "zaffera a rilievo" maiolica: a new look at the Oriental influence La foglia di quercia le sue origini ed il suo sviluppo Le maioliche rinascimentali nelle collezioni della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia, Vol. II Italian Maiolica in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria The Golden Age of Maiolica-Painting. Catalogue of a Private Collection Tin-glaze and Image Culture: the MAK Maiolica Collection in its Wider Context La marca dell'asterisco della bottega di Tugio di Giunta a Firenze --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_75_1961.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 702 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_75_1961.jpg height: 541 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_75_1961.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 702 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_75_1961.jpg height: 271 pixels width: 250 pixels