Drug Bottle
1540 ca. (made)
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Spouted drug-jar, and cover.Pear-shaped body with wide neck, tin-glazed outside and lead-glazed inside.
Spout in the form of a scaly monster's neck, broad strap handle; lightly domed cover, painted with radiating foliage on petal-pattern. Painted in colours: blue, green, orange, yellow.
Painted on each side of the spout with a caricatured bearded man's head on a blue ground in a panel reserved on an orange ground painted with formal foliage in blue. At the foot rests the inscription "OE EVFORBIO"
Spout in the form of a scaly monster's neck, broad strap handle; lightly domed cover, painted with radiating foliage on petal-pattern. Painted in colours: blue, green, orange, yellow.
Painted on each side of the spout with a caricatured bearded man's head on a blue ground in a panel reserved on an orange ground painted with formal foliage in blue. At the foot rests the inscription "OE EVFORBIO"
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware |
| Brief description | Drug bottle, 'OE.EVFORBIO' painted on label, made in Castelli, Italy, 1530, tin-glazed earthenware |
| Physical description | Spouted drug-jar, and cover.Pear-shaped body with wide neck, tin-glazed outside and lead-glazed inside. Spout in the form of a scaly monster's neck, broad strap handle; lightly domed cover, painted with radiating foliage on petal-pattern. Painted in colours: blue, green, orange, yellow. Painted on each side of the spout with a caricatured bearded man's head on a blue ground in a panel reserved on an orange ground painted with formal foliage in blue. At the foot rests the inscription "OE EVFORBIO" |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'OE.EVFORBIO' (Painted in Gothic script on a label. Oil of Euphorbium is dried latex obtained from the stem of Euphorbia resinifera and other species of Euphorbia.)
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Sir St.Clair Thomson |
| Object history | Formerly part of the Collection Damiron. Sale Catalogue (Sotheby's, 16th june, 1938) lot. No. 21 (£36). |
| Production | J Mallet Look at Drey. From the so-called Orsini-Colonna service: compare catalogue Nos. 250-257. |
| Bibliographic reference | Drey, R. Istoriato maiolica with scenes from the Second Punic War. Livy's history of Rome as source material. In: T. Wilson, ed. Italian Renaissance Pottery . London, 1991. |
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| Accession number | C.80-1944 |
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| Record created | July 16, 2008 |
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