IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 81578 accession number: C.39-1931 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 24 August 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior and exterior. The glaze is applied thinly to the interior and appears pink where the fabric shows through it. Painted in dark blue and pale yellow. Uneven sides, sloping shoulders, short cylindrical neck and projecting rim. On the front, within a yellow contour line, is a kite-shaped shield bearing the arms azure, a fess or between three fleurs-de-lis or (two in chief and one in base) surrounded by a wreath of serrated leaves bound with yellow. The rest of the main field is decorated with vertical yellow stems outlined in blue, each bearing three horizontal vine (?) leaves with scratched veins. The spaces are filled with groups of short horizontal lines above vertical strokes. Below, and on the shoulder, there is a horizontal version of the same design. Round the neck, between horizontal blue and yellow bands, there are dots and oblique lines. object type: Maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in blue and yellow with a shield of arms on the front, surrounded by a wreath, stems, leaves and lines. title: pharmacy jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Cecil Leitch & Kerin Ltd., London. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/81578 SUBJECTS ------------------- shield coat-of-arms vine leaves shield coat-of-arms vine leaves TECHNIQUES ---------- Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior and exterior. The glaze is applied thinly to the interior and appears pink where the fabric shows through it. Painted in dark blue and pale yellow. throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1440 - 1480 creation date earliest: 1440 creation date latest: 1480 culture: 15th Century# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Fine Art and Antiques Fair title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Italian Maiolica Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica Italian Renaissance Ceramics: A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, Volume I and Volume II Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Maiolica before Raphael. Italian ceramics before 1500 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_39_1931.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 470 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_39_1931.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 470 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_39_1931.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 470 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_39_1931.jpg height: 404 pixels width: 250 pixels