IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 48323 accession number: C.46-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-blue on the exterior and interior of the neck and shoulders; the glaze has crawled, particularly on the handles. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange. Ovoid with cylindrical neck, projecting flat rim, broad strap handles scrolling inwards at the top and outwards at the bottom, and, below them, three oak leaves and two acorns applied in relief. On the front in an oval panel with a blue background is a dove holding an olive branch in its beak, standing on a scroll inscribed `AVE GRACIA'. Below is a label inscribed `S + domine + f + An'. The rest of the jar is decorated with grotesques, comprising cornucopiae, dolphins, winged heads, books, and seven labels dated `1541', reserved in an orange ground. Round the lowest part and the neck are borders of plant motifs reserved in a blue ground. The handles are blue with a green stripe down the middle. The leaves below are green and the acorns yellow and orange. `XII' is incised into the top of the rim. object type: Maiolica two-handled pharmacy jar, painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange with a dove holding an olive branch above the inscription `S + domine + f + An', surrounded by grotesques. title: pharmacy jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: C. & E. Canessa, 125 Avenue des Champs Elysées, Paris, from whom purchased for 8,000 Francs on 22 April 1919 by F. Leverton Harris. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: F. Leverton Harris creditline: F. Leverton Harris Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48323 SUBJECTS ------------------- dove dove TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-blue on the exterior and interior of the neck and shoulders; the glaze has crawled, particularly on the handles. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange. throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1541 - 1541 creation date earliest: 1541 creation date latest: 1541 culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 32.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 34.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/large_c_46_1927_1_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 845 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_c_46_1927_1_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 413 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_46_1927_1_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 846 pixels width: 1025 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_c_46_1927_1_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 206 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/large_c_46_1927_2_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 843 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_c_46_1927_2_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 412 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_46_1927_2_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 844 pixels width: 1025 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_c_46_1927_2_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 206 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/large_c_46_1927_3_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 841 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_c_46_1927_3_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 411 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_46_1927_3_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 842 pixels width: 1025 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_c_46_1927_3_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 205 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/large_c_46_1927_4_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 845 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_c_46_1927_4_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 413 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_46_1927_4_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 846 pixels width: 1025 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_c_46_1927_4_201307_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 206 pixels width: 250 pixels