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Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Drug Jar

1490-1510 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drug jug with two looped handles, decorated with blue, green and red lustre


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration
Brief description
Drug jar with two looped handles, probably made in Gubbio, Italy, 1490-1510, tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration
Physical description
Drug jug with two looped handles, decorated with blue, green and red lustre
Dimensions
  • Height: 23.5cm
  • Width: 27cm
Gallery label
Drug jar Made in Gubbio, Italy 1490-1510 Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration 498-1865 Soulages Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase: Soulages Collection.
Production
J.V.G. Mallet, February 1999
See Rackham, Bernard: Italian Maiolica , pp.43B. (London: Faber and Faber 1952).
See T. Wilson 1996 and Fiocco and Gherardi 1996
Bibliographic references
  • Wilson, T. The beginnings of lustreware in Renaissance Italy. In: The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar. London, 1996. pp.35-43, fig. 8.
  • Fiocco, Carola, and Gherardi, Gabriella. Lustri precoci di Gubbio. Faenza. 1996, LXXXII, I-II. pp.5-11, tav.I-V, app.tav.1a.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
509 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
498-1865

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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