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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Oil Jar

1400-1500 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Jug of tin-glazed earthenware painted in green and manganese-purple. Bell-shaped with a flat base, small neck and mouth, and small loop handle on the shoulder. Painted on a dull white ground, with the arms of Perello (three green pears on a white ground), on the front, in a shield outlined in green and surrounded by purplish black foliage.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in green and manganese-purple
Brief description
Jug of tin-glazed earthenware painted in green and manganese-purple, Teruel, 1400-1500.
Physical description
Jug of tin-glazed earthenware painted in green and manganese-purple. Bell-shaped with a flat base, small neck and mouth, and small loop handle on the shoulder. Painted on a dull white ground, with the arms of Perello (three green pears on a white ground), on the front, in a shield outlined in green and surrounded by purplish black foliage.
Dimensions
  • Height: 36.2cm
  • Diameter: 21.6cm
Object history
Bought from the Homar Collection

Historical significance: This shape represents the typical Teruel oil-jar, whose shape remained unchanged through the centuries.
Historical context
The arms: three pears on a fielfd gules, are probably of the Perellos family. It is known that Ramon de Perellos, who was Lord of the castles of Roda and Epila (Aragon) from 1416 onwards, had both tiles and vessels made for these castles.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Ray, Anthony. Spanish Pottery 1248-1898 : with a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum London, V&A Publications, 2000 83
Collection
Accession number
C.19-1931

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Record createdDecember 19, 2006
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