Wet Drug Jar
ca. 1700 (made)
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Globular drug jar on single foot with pouring spout and loop handle with spiral terminals. Tin-glazed earthenware painted in cobalt blue and some manganese purple. Gadroons and bands of floral scrolls, and inscribed in dark manganese purple '.S.de.Berbé' (for syrup of Barbary?).
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware painted in manganese purple and cobalt blue |
| Brief description | Globular drug jar on single foot, with loop handles, blue and purple floral scrolls, tin-glazed earthenware, probably made by the Saint-Jean-du-Désert pottery factory, Marseilles, about 1700 |
| Physical description | Globular drug jar on single foot with pouring spout and loop handle with spiral terminals. Tin-glazed earthenware painted in cobalt blue and some manganese purple. Gadroons and bands of floral scrolls, and inscribed in dark manganese purple '.S.de.Berbé' (for syrup of Barbary?). |
| Marks and inscriptions | '.S.de.Berbé' (Decoration, below handle, poddibly for syrup of Barbary.) |
| Credit line | Given by M. de Rouviere |
| Object history | Acquisition type: Gift |
| Production | Saint-Jean-du-Désert factory (Clérissy factory); Acquired as 'Goult (Vaucluse)'. According to a note in the register 'several pieces painted in blue on a similar sort of white enamel were ascribed to Marseilles in the exhibition of French faïence in Paris in 1932. For similar jars attributed to Marseilles and dated c. 1700 see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Moustiers and Marseilles - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 64-5. |
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| Accession number | 369-1869 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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