Drug Jar
ca. 1475 (made)
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Vase of tin-glazed earthenware and painted in colours with a woman's head in profile.
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Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted |
Brief description | Vase of tin-glazed earthenware and painted in colours, Naples, ca. 1475. |
Physical description | Vase of tin-glazed earthenware and painted in colours with a woman's head in profile. |
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Gallery label | Drug jar depicting Portrait of a woman, probably Eleanor of Aragon.
Made in Naples, Italy About 1475
Tin-glazed earthenware
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Object history | Bought from Cav. Attilo Simonetti, Via Reale, Palazzo Odescalchi, Rome, for £30 1s 6d. |
Production | J Mallet Naples (not Castello sforzesco as in label), about 1475. Both portrait and ornament at the back are very similar to a jar of squatter form ill. by Von Falke, Sammlung Reitard Zachike, Tafel 3, Figs, 4a & b. Cora, 1975, the portrait is identified (questionably) as that of Eleonor of Aragona Donatone, 1993, Royal factory of Castelnuovo, about 1473, "Master of the Cappella del Brancaccio" Probably portrait of Eleanor of Aragon in the year of her wedding to Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. Similar iconography in a piece in the Zschille Collection, Leipzig. |
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Other number | 119 - Rackham (1977) |
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Accession number | 245-1894 |
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Record created | July 16, 2008 |
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