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Maker: Unknown
Maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in polychrome with a flower and branching leaves on each side.
Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white on the interior and exterior; base streaked with glaze. Painted in bright blue, bluish-green, and yellow, and manganese-purple. Albarello with straight sides, and shallow recess in the base.
On each side is a yellow and blue flower with branching leaves above and below which curve to right and left. The ground is blue. Round the shoulder and base are narrow horizontal manganese, and wider green and yellow, bands.
History note: Taormina, where purchased on 19 April 1904 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher (Typed Cat. 2044).
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 19.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
18th Century
Circa
1675
CE
-
1900
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( in bright blue, bluish-green, and yellow, and manganese-purple)
Widest Part
Diameter 12.7 cm
Base
Diameter 9.3 cm
Rim
Diameter 9.7 cm
Throwing
: Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white on the interior and exterior; base streaked with glaze. Painted in bright blue, bluish-green, and yellow, and manganese-purple.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.2251-1928
Primary reference Number: 80808
Old object number: 2044
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: C.181-1991
Accession Number: C.2187-1928
Accession Number: EC.26-1945
Accession Number: C.889-1927
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