IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75748 accession number: C.65-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 23 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Maiolica spouted pharmacy jar, painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange with profile busts of two young women, and the drug name 'O FILOSOFO' . title: pharmacy jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: A. Wylie; Frederick Leverton Harris (1864-1926) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: F. Leverton Harris Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75748 PEOPLE ------------------- woman SUBJECTS ------------------- pharmacy dragon dragon TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1550 - 1560 creation date earliest: 1550 creation date latest: 1560 culture: 16th Century, third quarter# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Pompei, Orazio DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 25 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- The Leverton Harris Collection Le maioliche cinquecentesche di Castelli. 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