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

Drug Jar

1460-1480 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase of tin-glazed earthenware, with brown glaze and crude figure of man playing the lute.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Drug jar albarello, tin-glazed earthenware, brown glaze and crude figure of man playing the lute, made in Deruta, 1460-1480.
Physical description
Vase of tin-glazed earthenware, with brown glaze and crude figure of man playing the lute.
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.5cm
  • Diameter: 13.5cm
Gallery label
Drug jar albarello Made in Deruta, Italy 1460-80 Tin-glazed earthenware 480-1901(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase price note: Bought for £7 10s.
Production
J Mallet
Brown glaze on it. Crude figure of man playing the lute.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
126 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
480-1901

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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