IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73914
accession number:	C.269-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 30 April 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Reddish buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in bright blue, green, yellow, dark yellow, brownish-orange, and black.Waisted albarello with short neck and sloping shoulders, tapering slightly towards the projecting base.
The front is decorated with an oval panel containing a bust of a woman wearing a striped cap, in profile to left, reserved in a blue ground. On the other side is an oval panel containing a nude infant boy holding a windmill, standing in grass. Both panels are framed by yellow half-leaves and are separated by stylised scrolling foliage and yellow flowers. The shoulder and the area above the base are decorated with black scrolls on a yellow ground. `L 2/4' is incised into the base.
object type: Renaissance maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in polychrome with, on the front, a bust of a woman and, on the back, a nude infant boy holding a windmill.
title:	pharmacy jar

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Dr Alfred Pringsheim; Sotheby's, 7 June 1939, Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, lot 45; 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

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73914

PEOPLE
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woman
boy

SUBJECTS
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windmill
foliage
landscape
windmill
foliage
landscape



TECHNIQUES
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Reddish buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in bright blue, green, yellow, dark yellow, brownish-orange, and black.
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:	1530 - 1550
creation date earliest:	1530
creation date latest:	1550
culture:	16th Century
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 12.3

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 20.5



CITATIONS
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Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim
Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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