IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73143
accession number:	C.212-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Pharmacy jar. Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white.
Albarello with swellings above and below the waist, short neck with everted rim, and solid foot.
On the front, two putti hold up a label inscribed in blue `LOC D PVL VLPIS'; above, a crowned woman, holding a sceptre, sits in a chair flanked by trees. The rest of the jar is decorated with a landscape with rocks, buildings and distant mountains. Round the rim there is a yellow band with an orange band over it.
object type: Renaissance maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in polychrome with a crowned woman, sitting on a chair, holding a sceptre, with a landscape.
title:	pharmacy jar

NOTES
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type: history note
value: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	H.S. Reitlinger
creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73143

PEOPLE
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queen
putti

SUBJECTS
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sceptre
trees
landscape
rocks
buildings
mountains
sceptre
trees
landscape
rocks
buildings
mountains



TECHNIQUES
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earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white.
throwing
TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1565 - 1571
creation date earliest:	1565
creation date latest:	1571
culture:	16th Century
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Fontana, Orazio

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 22.7



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	The Fine Art and Antiques Fair
title:	Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum
CITATIONS
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Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Italian Maiolica of the Renaissance
Tra ipotesi storiche e suggestioni simboliche. Un corredo farmaceutico ancora in cerca della sua spezieria
Importanti mobile, ceramiche, argenti ed oggetti d'arte, La collezione di Don Pietro Bruno di Belmonte, parte seconda e arredi già della Villa Paolina di Monte San Quirico, Lucca
Götter, Helden und Grotesken, Das Goldene Zeitalter der Majolika
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