1592999663000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-75748 1754071330507 1732119189000 1754071320951 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-75748 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75748 064fc1aa-9598-39fd-80fd-24205e1b5359 7 person reference agent-149742 adlib-agent-149742 1d4d164f-45d5-3cec-ad71-bbc83cea9b86 woman 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 10.6 Rim Diameter cm 9.8 Base Width cm 22.5 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 Applied Arts Maiolica spouted pharmacy jar, painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange with profile busts of two young women, and the drug name 'O FILOSOFO' . 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 profile busts of two young women facing inwards on either side of an oval yellow mask with a stubbly chin. They have blonde hair and wear green, low-necked dresses with high-necked white chemises. The panel is surrounded by blue and white formal foliage on an orange ground, bordered by vertical green lines edged with blue. The drug name `O FILOSOFO' is inscribed in Roman capitals on a label between yellow horizontal bands which encircle the lower part of the jar. On the back and sides there are large blue spirals, and on the outside of the handle, four vertical blue stripes. The rim is blue with a green horizontal band below. The scales on the spout are blue on a greyish-blue ground. no catalogue reference exhibition-1605 adlib-exhibition-1605 04d3c358-0bef-3d8f-8df5-14f16987ac1b Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum C.65-1927 1 accession number C.65-1927 75748 priref 75748 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75748 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75748 on lower part of jar painted in Roman capitals O FILOSOFO label reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum F. Leverton Harris Bequest reference agent-151483 adlib-agent-151483 26fbb332-a159-3961-80ad-ff1bd1a618c2 Harris, Frederick Leverton 1927 1927 1927 bequeathed bequeathed in 1926 1550 1550 CE 1550 circa 1550 1560 1 1560 CE 1560 1560 workshop reference agent-160721 adlib-agent-160721 67bdb3d7-e8fb-3f15-b3ae-de471dd66584 Pompei, Orazio During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries many pharmacies in Italian towns were equipped with splendid sets of maiolica jars of different forms with the name of the contents painted on a label which was part of the decoration. Spouted jars were used for oils, and syrups. This one held Philosopher's Oil, which was obtained by distillation of a mixture of powdered brick or tiles and olive oil. It belongs to a group of at least 280 jars of several different forms with closely related and distinctive decoration. The ceramic historian, Bernard Rackham (1876-1964), named them the Orsini-Colonna pharmacy jars after a two-handled bottle in the British Museum decorated with a bear embracing a column, and the words 'ET SARREMO boNI AMICI', emblematic of a reconciliation between these rival Roman families. The Orsini vases might be a more appropriate term. as that family's arms are shown on a two-handled pharmacy jar in the Lehman collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and on a two-handled bottle in a private collection. However, as the number of jars recorded with similar characteristics increased, it became evident that some of the drug names were repeated, two, three, four and in two cases, five times, and that they were therefore likely to have belonged to several sets. This is also indicated by some jars having their labels in Roman capitals, and others in Gothic letters. In the absence of firm evidence for their origin, the jars used to be attributed to central Italian towns, including Faenza, Deruta, Siena, Cafaggiolo, or Casteldurante. Their secure reattribution of Castelli in the Abruzzi, followed the retrieval of many fragments with similar decoration during an excavation there between 1980 and 1982. This revealed the waste tip on the hillside behind the home of Orazio Pompei (1510-20 to after 1590), a member of a large and flourishing potting family in Castelli. The connection between Orazio and the jars is supported by the inscription 'OC/OPVS/ORATTI' on a dragon-spouted jar in the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche at Faenza. Before the excavation the jars were usually dated to about 1515 to 1530, but given the probable date of Orazio Pompei's birth it seems unlikely that they were made before about 1540, and that production could have continued up to the late 1550s. Some of the female heads are comparable in style to those of the Angel and Madonna in an Annunciation on a panel dated '21.MAI/1557' at Chieti, which suggests that these jars probably date from about 1550 to 1560. Judging by the different styles of representing the male and female heads, and other figures on the jars, they were decorated by more than one member of the Pompei workshop. The decoration closely resembles a jar in the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche at Faenza, which is also decorated with two women, has a label written in Roman capitals, but instead of a mask below the spout, has a monogram in a shield. reference term-125332 adlib-term-125332 76f10b5d-9bf4-36d4-b4e3-f4df05af8260 16th Century, third quarter reference term-10618 adlib-term-10618 9ebc0ae1-8cf8-312b-832c-9cf44da02136 Renaissance reference term-113205 adlib-term-113205 ce7c3a03-e75c-38f2-ae19-c047de427820 literal Italy Italy country Castelli reference term-39575 adlib-term-39575 cdf6707a-1eeb-3622-a26b-6e54f1f8d4ab tin-glaze reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware Height cm 25 reference media-46030 adlib-media-46030 ad65c9be-f830-31be-a806-c6573241756e jpeg aa/aa9/C_65_1927_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583434557 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/mid_C_65_1927_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583434557 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/C_65_1927_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583434557 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/preview_C_65_1927_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583434557 1 image 0 media image reference media-46031 adlib-media-46031 f435e684-61c9-38f0-b278-5b3b873db9e7 jpeg aa/aa9/C_65_1927_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583441719 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/mid_C_65_1927_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583441719 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/C_65_1927_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583441719 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/preview_C_65_1927_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583441719 1 image 1 media image reference media-46032 adlib-media-46032 29a7c6aa-dcc5-3f32-acf4-fb6e6a181565 jpeg aa/aa9/C_65_1927_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583487879 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/mid_C_65_1927_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583487879 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/C_65_1927_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583487879 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/preview_C_65_1927_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583487879 1 image 2 media image reference media-46033 adlib-media-46033 57962508-3b2c-3ff8-a132-7cfa104def2b jpeg aa/aa20/C_65_1927_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 588 1742583498180 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/mid_C_65_1927_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 646 width pixels 500 1742583498180 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/C_65_1927_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 588 1742583498180 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/preview_C_65_1927_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 323 width pixels 250 1742583498180 1 image 3 media image reference media-46034 adlib-media-46034 76d2b7cd-d476-3967-a1bd-a15aeec9b1f7 jpeg aa/aa20/C_65_1927_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 560 1742583483571 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/mid_C_65_1927_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 679 width pixels 500 1742583483571 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/C_65_1927_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 560 1742583483571 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/preview_C_65_1927_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 339 width pixels 250 1742583483571 1 image 4 media image reference media-46035 adlib-media-46035 835486bc-759d-3a2b-906e-01cb06646b29 jpeg aa/aa20/C_65_1927_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 611 1742583469193 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/mid_C_65_1927_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 622 width pixels 500 1742583469193 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/C_65_1927_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 611 1742583469193 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/preview_C_65_1927_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 311 width pixels 250 1742583469193 1 image 5 media image reference term-110748 adlib-term-110748 2be693d4-8ff9-3eaf-9715-31e78087d0fd pharmacy jar spouted pharmacy jar history note A. Wylie; Frederick Leverton Harris (1864-1926) 1 same type reference object-75726 adlib-object-75726 ec754b33-1a2a-372f-8744-08a2430e8f71

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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. 441, no. 472 p. 441 reference publication-3010 adlib-publication-3010 e3e61863-a797-3051-8d0a-20288306ca36 Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Ref. pp. 202, 222 pp. 202, 222 reference publication-3352 adlib-publication-3352 8bd079b7-8e09-32c3-ad79-6dce6725a6ef Apothecary Jars Cf. pp. 196-9, no. 39, a two-handled bulbous jar labelled in Roman capitals, and decorated on one side with a proifle of a woman who has a similar wavy hairline, large ear, sloping nose (even more so), and the same dainty blue embroidered pattern on the neck of her chemise. The author draws attention to dragon-spouted jars with similar cariacature-like profiles, including the Fitzwilliam's, see note 14. 196-9 reference publication-8944 adlib-publication-8944 8ae54e96-a8df-31e0-8da3-ff6694ce355b Italian and Other Early Modern Ceramics in the Courtauld Gallery reference term-10618 adlib-term-10618 9ebc0ae1-8cf8-312b-832c-9cf44da02136 Renaissance reference term-23516 adlib-term-23516 290ee5a9-02db-302c-8885-a62b4540e002 pharmacy animal reference term-107785 adlib-term-107785 c70edf96-a6e9-39b0-99bb-d97be0cef893 dragon literal dragon dragon

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pharmacy jar reference term-120059 adlib-term-120059 dfa315b5-819d-37ab-ab22-bddfdbb3cbe7 tin-glazing object OBJECT