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Workshop: Pompei, Orazio
Maiolica spouted pharmacy jar, painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange with profile busts of two young women, and the drug name 'O FILOSOFO' .
Earthenware, tin-glazed except for the base. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange. Dragon-spouted baluster jar with strap handle. The spout is surrounded by a truncated heart-shaped panel, enclosing profile busts of two young women facing inwards on either side of an oval yellow mask with a stubbly chin. They have blonde hair and wear green, low-necked dresses with high-necked white chemises. The panel is surrounded by blue and white formal foliage on an orange ground, bordered by vertical green lines edged with blue. The drug name `O FILOSOFO' is inscribed in Roman capitals on a label between yellow horizontal bands which encircle the lower part of the jar. On the back and sides there are large blue spirals, and on the outside of the handle, four vertical blue stripes. The rim is blue with a green horizontal band below. The scales on the spout are blue on a greyish-blue ground.
History note: A. Wylie; F. Leverton Harris.
F. Leverton Harris Bequest
Height: 25.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, Frederick Leverton
16th century
Renaissance
Circa
1550
CE
-
1560
CE
Formerly attributed to Faenza or Deruta
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, and orange)
Rim
Diameter 10.6 cm
Base
Diameter 9.8 cm
Widest Part
Width 22.5 cm
Body
Accession number: C.65-1927
Primary reference Number: 75748
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: C.40.F4-1928
Accession Number: C.2401-1928
Accession Number: C.2402-1928
Accession Number: C.181-1991
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