Drug Jar
ca. 1700-ca. 1720 (made)
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Baluster drug jar, tin-glazed earthenware, inscribed 'Diascordium' and with cartouche and horizontal banding in blue
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and manganese |
| Brief description | Baluster drug jar, tin-glazed earthenware, inscribed 'Diascordium' and with cartouche and horizontal banding in blue, probably made in Marseilles, about 1700-1720 |
| Physical description | Baluster drug jar, tin-glazed earthenware, inscribed 'Diascordium' and with cartouche and horizontal banding in blue |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'Diascordium' (Decoration on vase) |
| Gallery label | Gallery 128 Decant 2003
'Diascordium' can be translated as 'made from water germander'(07/06/2004) |
| Credit line | Given by M. de Rouvière |
| Object history | 'Diascordium' can be translated as 'made from water germander' |
| Production | Aquired as 'earthenware of Goult (Vaucluse) ... 17th century'; relabelled as 'Southern French, 1st half of the 18th century'; for similarly decorated drug jar attributed to Marseilles (Saint-Jaen-du-Désert, Fabrique Clérissy) and dated c. 1700, see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Moustiers and Marseilles - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 64. |
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| Accession number | 368-1869 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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