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

Drug Jar

1450-1470 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drug jar with one small loop handle.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Drug jar with small loop handle, probably Florentine, Italy, 1450-70, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Drug jar with one small loop handle.
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.5cm
  • Diameter: 13cm
Gallery label
Drug jar Made in Probably Florentine, Italy 1450-70 Tin-glazed earthenware 1131-1904 Henry Wallis Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase: Henry Wallis Collection.

Purchase price note: 1116 to 1151-1904 purchased for £700.
Production
J Mallet
Probably Florentine, although there are no maker's marks.

Stated in Cora (Storia della maiolica di Firenze etc. 1973 n. 137B.) to be Florentine Zone.
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
56 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
1131-1904

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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