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

Drug Bottle

ca. 1500 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drug bottle, tin-glazed earthenware, painted in blue and orange, incribed: 'A.DI MATRICHA' painted on cartouche.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Drug bottle, tin-glazed earthenware, inscribed 'A.DI MATRICHA', Italy (probably Faenza or Montelupo), ca. 1500
Physical description
Drug bottle, tin-glazed earthenware, painted in blue and orange, incribed: 'A.DI MATRICHA' painted on cartouche.
Dimensions
  • Height: 30.5cm
  • Diameter: 21cm
Marks and inscriptions
'A.DI MATRICHA' (Painted in Roman script on a cartouche.)
Translation
Feverfew water
Transliteration
Aqua di Matricha
Gallery label
Drug bottle Made in Florence or Deruta, Italy 1480 A.DI MATRICHA Tin-glazed earthenware 2561-1856(16/07/2008)
Object history
Evans, quai Voltaire, Paris. Bought with another bottle from this set (2560-1856)
Purchase price note: Bought for £1. 8s.
Production
J Mallet thought this to be Florence region or Deruta, circa 1480. Hispano-Moresque pattern, particularly popular in Florentine area.
Elisa Sani attributed it to Montelupo (Not in Rackham).

Associated object
2560-1856 (Set)
Bibliographic references
  • Cora, G. Storia della maiolica di Firenze e del contado: Secoli xiv e xv. Firenze, 1973. n. 253.
  • See Ceramics & Glass Section Object Information file
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977, cat. 144
Other number
144 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
2561-1856

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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