1592996638000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-77387 1754071328293 1754040044000 1754071321243 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-77387 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77387 bf866e15-7f53-3ebc-859b-af1ca9ffe525 8 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-107444 adlib-term-107444 571df7cf-e062-3968-ae5e-bec9d5a82f92 C. B. Marlay bright dark blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese, black, and white 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 19.4 Base Diameter cm 19.8 Rim Width cm 28.5 Widest Part reference term-110500 adlib-term-110500 6dc34c6c-d553-36b2-b489-9797a89deeea society/human life Applied Arts Maiolica pharmacy or storage jar, painted in polychrome with, on one side, a grotesque male head, and on the other side, a label inscribed `Mostarda FA'. Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white on the exterior and interior; rim and base unglazed. Painted in bright dark blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese, black, and white. The yellow and orange stand up from the surface. Albarello with wide flat rim, curving shoulders, and straight sides, sloping inwards diagonally above the projecting base. On the front is a rectangular label inscribed `Mostarda FA' in black Gothic script, and on the other side, an oval scrolled frame enclosing a grotesque male head in profile to left. The rest of the main field and the shoulders are decorated with stylised flowers and scrolling foliage, reserved in a dark blue ground incised with coiling tendrils. On the neck, the shoulders and the edge of the base are yellow and blue horizontal bands with narrow orange bands over the former. 167 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 MAR.C.68A-1912 1 accession number MAR.C.68A-1912 77387 priref 77387 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77387 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77387 in a rectangular label on the front inscribed in black Gothic script Mostarda FA rectangular with cut corners and blue printed border inscribed in black ink 16323/Pau M 100 label reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum C.B. Marlay Bequest reference agent-149674 adlib-agent-149674 de1bf9dd-2091-39ca-85f6-41e736f6e32b Marlay, Charles Brinsley 1912 1912 1912 bequeathed Entry date: 1912 1560 1560 CE 1560 circa 1560 1570 1 1570 CE 1570 1570 workshop reference agent-160603 adlib-agent-160603 93709b0a-a498-33b4-90e4-5149100b9129 Domenego da Venezia Label text from the exhibition ‘Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500–1800’, on display at The Fitzwilliam Museum from 26 November 2019 until 31 August 2020: Pair of storage jars for mostarda fina (fruit pickle) Storage containers for preserved food often had substantial capacity like this vibrant pair for ‘Mostarda f[in]a’, a fruit pickle or sauce for culinary and medicinal purposes. Recipes usually included a purée of quinces, pears, or apples, to which chopped candied fruit, sugar, mustard, spices, and salt were added, before cooking and thickening in cooked must (‘mosto cotto’ made from boiled down grape juice) whose high sugar content and acidity made it an excellent preservative. Combined with mustard seeds that have powerful anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties, it was a highly effective way of preserving fruit – still in use today, especially in north Italy. The jar held Mostarda Fina, which means either fine mustard or a fruit pickle or sauce, known as mostarda. While mustard was possibly the contents of some jars, it seems more likely that the majority of large jars held fruit pickle. Most large jars of this type which have labels are inscribed Mostarda, and if all were filled with mustard, it would be necessary to explain why Venetians were consuming such vast quantities for culinary and medicinal purposes in comparison with citizens of other Italian towns. For another jar paired with this see MAR.C.68B-1912. reference term-125332 adlib-term-125332 76f10b5d-9bf4-36d4-b4e3-f4df05af8260 16th Century, third quarter reference term-106518 adlib-term-106518 e3082340-b0d5-357a-ab15-283024f9bed7 literal Italy Italy country Venice except rim and base 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 37.8 reference media-49815 adlib-media-49815 55156764-08e8-3a3b-a10e-d6d7826c8cd8 jpeg aa/aa5/MAR_C_68A_1912_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583806208 1 image jpeg aa/aa5/mid_MAR_C_68A_1912_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583806208 1 image jpeg aa/aa5/MAR_C_68A_1912_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583806208 1 image jpeg aa/aa5/preview_MAR_C_68A_1912_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583806208 1 image 0 media image reference media-49816 adlib-media-49816 222b1de1-f976-30ba-80a2-132a608b1fdc jpeg aa/aa5/MAR_C_68A_1912_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583869774 1 image jpeg aa/aa5/mid_MAR_C_68A_1912_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583869774 1 image jpeg aa/aa5/MAR_C_68A_1912_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583869774 1 image jpeg aa/aa5/preview_MAR_C_68A_1912_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583869774 1 image 1 media image reference media-49817 adlib-media-49817 fda2e6d7-7a5f-3730-a70f-3c262f718dd9 jpeg aa/aa5/MAR_C_68A_1912_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583861676 1 image jpeg aa/aa5/mid_MAR_C_68A_1912_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583861676 1 image jpeg aa/aa5/MAR_C_68A_1912_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583861676 1 image jpeg aa/aa5/preview_MAR_C_68A_1912_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583861676 1 image 2 media image reference media-49818 adlib-media-49818 73194b02-9780-332e-b62a-9b0619231624 jpeg aa/aa5/MAR_C_68A_1912_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583835749 1 image jpeg aa/aa5/mid_MAR_C_68A_1912_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583835749 1 image jpeg aa/aa5/MAR_C_68A_1912_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583835749 1 image jpeg aa/aa5/preview_MAR_C_68A_1912_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583835749 1 image 3 media image reference term-110748 adlib-term-110748 2be693d4-8ff9-3eaf-9715-31e78087d0fd pharmacy jar object name reference term-42865 adlib-term-42865 92be1d50-bb1c-3472-950f-b140ee6cdde9 maiolica category storage jar history note Unknown. 1 reference object-77388 adlib-object-77388 0a455fb1-e558-3dc5-adc7-18aafff3add3

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pharmacy jar reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. pp. 415-417, no. 446 pp. 415-417 reference publication-3010 adlib-publication-3010 e3e61863-a797-3051-8d0a-20288306ca36 Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Publ. p. 251, cat. no. 167 (not illustrated) 251 reference publication-8743 adlib-publication-8743 a86a8f73-aae5-372c-930d-aa215bd02c9b Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 reference publication-7728 adlib-publication-7728 9583d70e-41b6-39cb-b97a-200165b05863 Taste of Venice, Traditional Venetian Cooking

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pharmacy jar earthenware, tin-glazed off-white on the exterior and interior; rim and base unglazed. Painted in bright dark blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese, black, and white. The yellow and orange stand up from the surface. except rim and base reference term-120059 adlib-term-120059 dfa315b5-819d-37ab-ab22-bddfdbb3cbe7 tin-glazing object OBJECT