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

Drug Bottle

ca. 1520-1530 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drug bottle of tin-glazed earthenware painted with blue foliage and with the name of the drug in the middle of the body.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Brief description
Drug bottle 'a. cosolida' of tin-glazed earthenware painted with blue, Faenza, ca. 1520-1530
Physical description
Drug bottle of tin-glazed earthenware painted with blue foliage and with the name of the drug in the middle of the body.
Dimensions
  • Height: 21cm
Marks and inscriptions
'a. cosolida' (Painted in Gothic script around middle of body)
Translation
Comfrey water
Gallery label
Drug bottle Made in Italy a. cosolida Tin-glazed earthenware 202-1887 Nesbitt Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase: Nesbitt Collection.

Purchase price note: Bought for £2 12s 6d.
Production
Another, but with some polychrome in the leaves is at Lang Art Gallery, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
204 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
202-1887

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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