Two-handled jar: C.2163-1928

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown (District of)

Entities

• Two-handled jar
• two-handled storage jar
• two-handled pharmacy jar

Categories

• Tin-glazed earthenware
• Maiolica

Description

Renaissance, maiolica two-handled storage or pharmacy jar, painted in relief-blue and manganese, with birds, oak leaves, dots and stars.

Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in thick relief-blue with manganese outlines.
Ovoid with flat base, short slightly flaring neck, and two small strap handles, each formed of two vertical strips pressed together, so that there is a depression running vertically down the middle.
On each side, a long-tailed bird stands in profile to right, surrounded by sprays of oak leaves with dots and stars in the background. On each side of the handles there are three vertical manganese lines. Round the lower part of the body, there are two horizontal manganese bands. On the neck, between pairs of manganese bands, there is a wavy manganese stem with roughly V-shaped leaves in the spaces above and below it. On the handles there are horizontal manganese lines and, on one, two pairs of blue splodges, and on the other, one pair. Below each handle is a manganese `S', flanked on one side by blue C-shaped strokes, with two spirals below, and on the other by two U-shaped strokes.

Notes

History note: Professor William R. Lethaby; lent to the Fitzwilliam on 8 March 1917; purchased on 20 July 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher for £50 (MS Cat. 4730).

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Place(s) associated

• Florence ⪼ Tuscany ⪼ Italy

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

15th Century#
Renaissance
Circa 1420 CE - 1450 CE