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

Drug Jar

ca. 1470 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drug jar, tin-glazed earthenware.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Drug jar, tin-glazed earthenware, made in Naples, Italy, ca. 1470.
Physical description
Drug jar, tin-glazed earthenware.
Dimensions
  • Height: 31.5cm
  • Diameter: 14cm
Gallery label
Drug jar Made in Naples, Italy about 1470 Tin-glazed earthenware 1129-1904 Henry Wallis Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase: Henry Wallis Collection.

Purchase price note: 1116 to 1151-1904 purchased for £700.
Production
III.by Guido Donatone, Maioliche Napoletane della Spezieria Aragonese di Castelnuovo, Naples, 1970, pl. 40 as Napolitan ca. 1470, but the whole theses depends on identification of portraits on drug-jars.

See Guido Donatone, 1993, tav.44.
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
94 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
1129-1904

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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