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

Drug Jar

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

Drug jar, tin-glazed earthenware, painted in dark blue and orange. On one side, a pea- cock, on the other, a monastic badge composed of the letters M B and two crosses, in both cases enclosed in a "contour" panel reserved on a ground filled with leafy stems with dots in the interspaces. Round the shoulder, a row of chevron-like dashes, round the base, a band of zigzag ornament.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Object type
Drug jar
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Tin Glazing
Brief description
Drug jar, 'M B' on one side enclosed in a contour panel, probably made in Faenza, Italy, about 1480, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Drug jar, tin-glazed earthenware, painted in dark blue and orange. On one side, a pea- cock, on the other, a monastic badge composed of the letters M B and two crosses, in both cases enclosed in a "contour" panel reserved on a ground filled with leafy stems with dots in the interspaces. Round the shoulder, a row of chevron-like dashes, round the base, a band of zigzag ornament.
Dimensions
  • Height: 21cm
  • Diameter: 13.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
'M B' (Painted on one side enclosed in a contour panel.)
Gallery label
Drug jar Made in Probably Faenza, Italy About 1480 M B Tin-glazed earthenware 368-1889(16/07/2008)
Object history
Bought from Mr. Charles Fairfax Murray, London
Production
J Mallet
Probably Faenza, about 1480. Pesaro style, generally Faenza patterns seem to be flatter than Pesaro. Faenza more stiff and formal than Pesaro.
Bibliographic references
  • Giacomotti, J. Catalogue des majoliques des Musées Nationaux. Paris, 1974. 25 p., no.75.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
133 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
368-1889

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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