Bottle
ca. 1590 (made)
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Pilgrim-bottle with four loops, the two upper moulded each with two grotesque masks. Painted with grotesque decoration. On the sides are two shields bordered with baroque scrollwork and ensigned with the Medici crown. They are charged respectively with the arms of Medici and Lorraine with quarterings. They are surrounded by a ring of female terminal figures set radially with outstretched arms holding festoons of drapery; between the figures are various motives including a crown, an owl, a swan, a violet plant in blossom, a fish, parrot, a magpie, a stag, a dog, a hare, and formal ornaments. On the rounded edges between the loops are oval medallions painted to imitate cameos with naked female figures.
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Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in enamels |
Brief description | Pilgrim-bottle with four loops, the two upper moulded each with two grotesque masks, tin-glazed earthenware, made in Urbino, Italy, about 1590 |
Physical description | Pilgrim-bottle with four loops, the two upper moulded each with two grotesque masks. Painted with grotesque decoration. On the sides are two shields bordered with baroque scrollwork and ensigned with the Medici crown. They are charged respectively with the arms of Medici and Lorraine with quarterings. They are surrounded by a ring of female terminal figures set radially with outstretched arms holding festoons of drapery; between the figures are various motives including a crown, an owl, a swan, a violet plant in blossom, a fish, parrot, a magpie, a stag, a dog, a hare, and formal ornaments. On the rounded edges between the loops are oval medallions painted to imitate cameos with naked female figures. |
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Gallery label | Bottle
Made in Urbino, Italy
Tin-glazed earthenware
322-1854(16/07/2008) |
Object history | Previously thought to be from the Walpole Collection. Strawberry Hill sale catalogue Christie's, April 1843, lot 53. (see curators comments). |
Production | Similar case with dragon handles, "PISA" in cartouche under handles (referred to by Fortum), ill. in Detroit Institute of Fine Art, Exhibition Decorative arts of the Italian Renaissance, Nov. 1958-Jan.1959, No. 129, p. 50, fig. on p. 61 Of photos of two bottles in Robert Bok Collection, New York (Photos in Dept., V & A). See also article by G. Cora, Faenza No. 1-3 1964 H. 25-30, where Pisa is ruled out on grounds of the early date, 1591, written underneath one of Bok's pieces. Probably lot 38 in Christies, 1777 (Broderick) acc. to A.V.B. Norman. |
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Other number | 951 - Rackham (1977) |
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Accession number | 322-1854 |
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Record created | July 16, 2008 |
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