1592999663000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-75726 1754071327843 1754040043000 1754071320951 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-75726 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75726 ec754b33-1a2a-372f-8744-08a2430e8f71 11 person reference agent-153715 adlib-agent-153715 8b8facef-bbf3-3362-accf-80549de1f9da man reference term-108348 adlib-term-108348 667e7a19-db33-3d85-bd9b-c2dafd8e02ff tin-glazed earthenware reference term-42865 adlib-term-42865 92be1d50-bb1c-3472-950f-b140ee6cdde9 maiolica blue, green, yellow, and orange reference term-108364 adlib-term-108364 115b8729-a560-35c1-b654-4b9d2fc5f68b high-temperature colours Decoration reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting Diameter cm 10.3 Base Diameter cm 12.1 Rim Width cm 23.5 Widest Part Body Earthenware, tin-glazed except for the base. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange. reference term-120082 adlib-term-120082 ea83ed85-6b07-3e7e-83fc-440cfda22f7e throwing Spout reference term-111179 adlib-term-111179 be5c887b-c0ed-3d89-82b2-c3a870e72a68 moulding reference term-110500 adlib-term-110500 6dc34c6c-d553-36b2-b489-9797a89deeea society/human life reference term-102639 adlib-term-102639 2c240716-c1bb-36c4-9594-b0a98f1208c2 allegory Applied Arts Maiolica spouted pharmacy jar, painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange, with a bust of a bearded old man, the inscription of the drug `Oymel composito', loose spirals, stripes, and honeysuckle. Earthenware, tin-glazed except for the base. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange. Dragon-spouted baluster jar with strap handle.The spout is surrounded by a truncated heart-shaped panel, enclosing a bust of a bearded old man three-quarters to left, pointing with his right hand to a flaming brazier. The space above is filled by blue and white honeysuckle on a partly yellow and partly orange ground, bordered by two vertical stripes: green and orange on the left of the spout, and green and yellow on the right. The drug name `Oymel composito' is inscribed in gothic letters on a label with curled ends between yellow horizontal bands which encircle the lower part of the jar. On the back there are loose blue spirals, and on the handle and between the ends of the label, blue diagonal stripes. The projecting rim is decorated with orange scallops on a dark blue band with a pale green band below. 241 reference exhibition-3305 adlib-exhibition-3305 534a3247-91a9-398f-abe9-7b419586f568 Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800) no catalogue reference exhibition-1605 adlib-exhibition-1605 04d3c358-0bef-3d8f-8df5-14f16987ac1b Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum C.64-1927 1 accession number C.64-1927 75726 priref 75726 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75726 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75726 on lower part of jug painted in Gothic letters Oymel composito inscription reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926 reference agent-151483 adlib-agent-151483 26fbb332-a159-3961-80ad-ff1bd1a618c2 Harris, Frederick Leverton 1927 1927 1927 bequeathed 1545 1545 CE 1545 circa 1545 1555 1 1555 CE 1555 1555 workshop reference agent-160631 adlib-agent-160631 97f8a7d6-866a-343e-bf60-4e7cb2ed9e5a Pompei workshop During the fifteenth and sixteenth century many pharmacies in Italian towns had extensive sets of maiolica jars of different forms to contain the various medicaments, and from the early sixteenth century, these often had their contents name painted on labels which were part of the decoration. These inscriptions frequently used the specialised Latin vocabulary of published medical texts and ‘books of secrets’. Spouted jars were used for oils, syrups, or liquid infusions. This one is labelled: ‘O[x]ymel composito’ compound oxymel, a potion prepared by evaporating a mixture of clarified honey and vinegar until it formed a syrup. This sweet- and-sour concoction, known from ancient Roman sources, was used to treat asthma as well as conjunctivitis. The warming nature of the remedy is alluded to by the old man who points to a flaming brazier, an image often emblematic of Winter. The jar and C.65-1927 belong to a group of at least 280 pharmacy of several different forms with closely related and very distinctive decoration. The ceramic historian, Bernard Rackham (1876-1964), named the type 'Orsini-Colonna' jars, because a large two-handled bottle in the British Museum is decorated with a bear embracing a column with the words 'ET SARRIMO boNI AMICI' (and we will be good friends), emblematic of a reconciliation between these rival Roman families. The Orsini jars might be more appropriate, as that family's arms appear on a two-handled vase in the Lehman collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and on a two-handled bottle in a private collection. However, as more jars became known, it became apparent that the contents labels were repeated two, three, four, or in two instances five times, indicating that there must have been several different sets. This is also supported by the use of Roman capitals for the labels on some jars, and Gothic lettering on others. In the absence of firm evidence for their place of origin the jars used to be attributed to central Italian towns, including Deruta, Siena, Cafaggiolo, Faenza or Casteldurante. Their secure attribution to Castelli in the Abruzzi followed the retrieval of many similar fragments in an excavation there between 1980 and 1982. This revealed the waste tip on the hillside behind the house of Orazio Pompei (c. 1510-20 to after 1590), a member of a large and flourishing potting family in the town. The connection between Orazio and the jars is supported by the inscription 'OC/OPVS/ORATII' on a dragon-spouted ewer in the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, and by similarities between the female busts on the jars, and those on two maiolica panels attributed to him. The first, decorated with the Virgin and Child flanked by the letters 'ORO', presumably for Orazio, and the date '1551' was formerly situated at the entrance to his house. The second, decorated with the Annunciation, and dated '21.MAI/1557' belongs to the comune of Chieti. Given Orazio's presumed date of birth, it seems unlikely that the pharmacy jars were made before about 1540 and judging by their similarities with the figures in the wall panels, production could have continued until the late 1550s. Vincenzo De Pompeis considered that this jar was probably made at the early end of the date range. 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Wylie; F. Leverton Harris (1864-1926) 1 reference object-75748 adlib-object-75748 064fc1aa-9598-39fd-80fd-24205e1b5359

1 reference 1 term-110748 adlib-term-110748 2be693d4-8ff9-3eaf-9715-31e78087d0fd pharmacy jar

pharmacy jar reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference publication-1569 adlib-publication-1569 4825b83f-3a92-3c6d-b58b-2686ea0509e0 The Leverton Harris Collection reference publication-3354 adlib-publication-3354 7b24fdbc-47bb-3671-b227-040089542e67 Le maioliche cinquecentesche di Castelli. Una grande stagione artistica ritrovata Publ. p. 22, figs. 9a & b p. 22 reference publication-200001143 adlib-publication-200001143 f85a3374-6265-393d-b599-e70b9b6a06f5 L'evoluzione della tipologia Orsini-Colonna Publ. pp. 439-440, no. 471, where other jars from this series are cited pp. 439-440 reference publication-3010 adlib-publication-3010 e3e61863-a797-3051-8d0a-20288306ca36 Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Publ. pp. 86-7, no. 38 pp. 86-7 reference publication-3378 adlib-publication-3378 e4a41d6d-c98c-3959-bcb4-041c12eeb88c Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica Publ. p. 212, fig. 7.14, two views, and p. 252-3, cat. 241 212, 252 reference publication-8743 adlib-publication-8743 a86a8f73-aae5-372c-930d-aa215bd02c9b Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 Cf. pp. 112-115, inv. no. 600-D2, a spouted pharmacy jar with a young woman and an old bearded man on either side of the spout, and the name of the contents, SYo DE RIBES (redcurrant syrup) in Roman capitals, dated c. 1545-60 112-15 reference publication-8435 adlib-publication-8435 6bb1d864-ca6a-3640-a048-6288582518f7 Italian Maiolica in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria reference term-10618 adlib-term-10618 9ebc0ae1-8cf8-312b-832c-9cf44da02136 Renaissance concept reference term-2514 adlib-term-2514 051cb387-cba7-32ca-8ef0-4a8f72dc0f57 winter object name reference term-111164 adlib-term-111164 b6b9d10a-9fd3-3969-b58d-50a622fc1779 brazier literal winter winter literal brazier brazier

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