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Maker: Unknown (Possibly)
Maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in blue with an oval shield and a pharmacy badge.
Pale buff earthenware. The exterior and interior are covered with speckly tin-glaze, and there is a little glaze on the base. Painted in blue.
Albarello with convex swellings above and below the waist.
On the front is an oval shield charged with the arms on a bend between two fleurs-de-lis three mullets, within a frame of scrolls and ribbons with a heart at the top and a grotesque mask at the bottom. On the other side is a pharmacy badge: a heart enclosing the initials `.G. .B.' over `1708', surmounted by a cross.
History note: Countess Howard de Walden; Thomas Sutton, Eastbourne, from whom purchased in February 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher for £1 (Typed Cat. 1103).unknown
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 14.3 cm
Width: 9.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early#
Production date:
AD 1708
A Siena attribution for this jar is suggested by the arms which resemble those of Bensi of Siena, azure a bend or charged with three mullets azure between two fleurs-de-lis, but without yellow to represent gold.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue)
Base
Diameter 7.0 cm
Rim
Diameter 9.0 cm
Throwing
: Pale buff earthenware. The exterior and interior are covered with speckly tin-glaze, and there is a little glaze on the base. Painted in blue.
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: when acquired by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher it had a label on it marked 'Urbino'.
Accession number: C.2278-1928
Primary reference Number: 48314
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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