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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. 1500 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drug jar, tin-glazed earthenware. 'ell-dia-sebesten.S' painted on label round middle.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Drug jar, tin-glazed earthenware, made in Faenza, Italy, about 1500
Physical description
Drug jar, tin-glazed earthenware. 'ell-dia-sebesten.S' painted on label round middle.
Dimensions
  • Height: 18cm
  • Diameter: 15cm
Marks and inscriptions
'ell-dia-sebesten.S' (Painted in Gothic script on a label round the middle.)
Translation
Electuary of damsons
Gallery label
Drug jar Made in Faenza, Italy About 1500 ell-dia-sebesten.S Tin-glazed earthenware 707-1894(16/07/2008)
Object history
Bought from Mons. Fulgence, Paris, for 18s 6d.
Production
J Mallet
Perfect technically, but "sterile"
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
214 - Rackham (1940)
Collection
Accession number
707-1894

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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