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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 Jar

ca. 1480 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drug jar of tin-glazed earthenware.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Drug jar of tin-glazed earthenware, made in Pesaro or Naples, Italy, ca. 1480.
Physical description
Drug jar of tin-glazed earthenware.
Dimensions
  • Height: 31.5cm
  • Diameter: 13.5cm
Gallery label
Drug jar Made in Pesaro or Naples, Italy About 1480 Tin-glazed earthenware 270-1902(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase price note: Bought from Mons. G. Duseigneur, Paris, for £9 18s 11d.
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
125 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
270-1902

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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