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Drug jar

Drug jar

  • Place of origin:

    Deruta, Italy (probably, made)

  • Date:

    1530-1550 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Tin-glazed earthenware painted with colours

  • Museum number:

    711-1894

  • Gallery location:

    Making Ceramics, room 143, case 12, shelf 2

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This jar, bearing an unidentified coat of arms, was probably part of a large pharmacy series. It was meant to store electuary of plums, a widely used purgative. The beginning of the production of drug jars inscribed with the name of the contents dates from about the middle of the 15th century, both in Spain and in Italy.
The horizontal and vertical blue outlines painted on the body helped the painter to set out the design.

Physical description

Painted in blue, copper green, yellow, brownish orange. On the front, an oval panel enclosed by a wreath of loose trefoils tied with ribbons. On a label the name of the contents. Above the label are branching leafy stems and a shield of arms; Azure a fesse argent between in chief two mullets or and in base a rose of the second seeded gules and barbed or.

Place of Origin

Deruta, Italy (probably, made)

Date

1530-1550 (made)

Artist/maker

unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

Tin-glazed earthenware painted with colours

Marks and inscriptions

'DIA. P,NI: S' Electuary of plums

Dimensions

Height: 20 cm, Diameter: 9.5 cm, Weight: 790 g

Object history note

Purchase price note: Bought for 18s 6d.

Descriptive line

Drug jar, 'DIA. P,NI: S' painted on broad label, probably made in Deruta, Italy, 1530-1550, tin-glazed earthenware

Labels and date

Drug jar
Probably made in Deruta, Italy Mid 16th century
DIA. P,NI: S
Tin-glazed earthenware
711-1894 [16/07/2008]

Categories

Ceramics; Maiolica

Collection code

CER

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