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Potter: Unidentified Pesaro potter (Probably)
Maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in blue, green, yellow and manganese with boys wearing contemporary costumes.
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior and very thinly on the interior; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue, green, dark yellow, and manganese-purple. Broad albarello form with straight sides. Round the middle are four busts of boys wearing contemporary costume face in profile to left. One is flanked by gothic foliage and peacock's feather eye motifs, the others by scrolling foliage bearing parti-coloured fruits against a dotted background. Above and below there is a wide blue band and a dark yellow band between two blue; and on the shoulder, a row of blue chevrons with a blue band above.
History note: Arthur G. Sambon; Paris, Galerie Petit, 27 May 1914, Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité de l'antiquité du Moyen Age, de la Renaissance et autres . . ., formant la collection de M. Arthur Sambon, lot 241; sold to Kaufmann for 7,000 francs. Durlacher Brothers, London, from whom purchased on 4 December 1919 for £1,600 by F. Leverton Harris.
F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926
Diameter: 20.3 cm
Height: 26.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, Frederick Leverton
15th Century, Late
Renaissance
Circa
1470
CE
-
1490
CE
Formerly attributed to Faenza
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark blue, green, dark yellow, and manganese-purple)
Base
Diameter 17.2 cm
Rim
Diameter 18.8 cm
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior and very thinly on the interior; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue, green, dark yellow, and manganese-purple.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.60-1927
Primary reference Number: 79385
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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