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

Drug Jar

1450-1475 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Montelupo Fiorentino (made)

Vase of tin-glazed earthenware painted with colours. Of slightly concave cylindrical form with slanting shoulder and foot and wide short flanged neck. The decoration, painted chiefly in blue with slight passages of yellow and pale green, consists of rosettes on coiled stems, resembling the bryony-flowers of Hispano-Moresque ware, arranged in sets of three on a ground of tendrils in seven narrow vertical panels, and two horizontal bands of foliage on continuous wavy stems encircling the neck and shoulder.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Earthenware
Object type
Drug jar
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, yellow and green
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Tin Glazing
Painting
Brief description
Drug vase, tin-glazed earthenware painted with colours, Montelupo Fiorentino, 1450-1475.
Physical description
Vase of tin-glazed earthenware painted with colours. Of slightly concave cylindrical form with slanting shoulder and foot and wide short flanged neck. The decoration, painted chiefly in blue with slight passages of yellow and pale green, consists of rosettes on coiled stems, resembling the bryony-flowers of Hispano-Moresque ware, arranged in sets of three on a ground of tendrils in seven narrow vertical panels, and two horizontal bands of foliage on continuous wavy stems encircling the neck and shoulder.
Dimensions
  • Height: 35cm
  • Diameter: 16.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
'f' (Painted in blue)
Gallery label
  • Drug jar Made in Montelupo, Italy 1450-75 Mark: 'f', painted in blue Tin-glazed earthenware C.131-1914 Fitzhenry Collection(16/07/2008)
  • Drug vase (albarello) of enamelled earthenware (maiolica) painted in blue in the Hispano-Moresque style. Italian (Florence), late 15th century(1914)
  • Drug-pot (albarello), tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), marked with the letter 'F'. Italian (Florentine); about 1450-1470(post 1914 and pre 1974)
  • Drug-pot (Albarello) tin-glazed earthenware, painted in cobalt blue with a pattern derived from imported Hispano-Moresque wares. Mark: "F" in blue. Italian (Florentine) mid-fifteenth century.(1974)
Credit line
Formerly in the Fitzhenry Collection
Object history
Formerly Fitzhenry Collection.
Object was on loan to the V&A from December 1906.
Object lent to the exhibition "Capolavori della Maiolica Rinascimentale- Montelupo fabbrica di Firenze 1400-1630, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Firenze, 31 May-27 October 2002.
Subjects depicted
Rosettes
Flowers
Foliage
Bibliographic references
  • Berti, Fausto. Capolavori della maiolica rinascimentale: Montelupo "fabbrica" di Firenze 1400-1600. Montelupo Fiorentino : Florence, 2002 no. 13, p.91
  • Berti, Fausti. Storia della ceramica di Montelupo. Vol.III. Montelupo, 1999. Catalogue entry 21, and ill. 243 p.
  • Cora, Galeazzo, La storia della maiolica di Firenze e del contado secoli XIV e XV, Florence, 2 vols., 1973
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
69 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.131-1914

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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