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

Drug Jar

ca. 1400 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drug jar, made in Paterna or Manises, Spain, about 1400, tin-glazed earthenware

Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Drug jar, made in Paterna or Manises, Spain, about 1400, tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
  • Height: 31.7cm
  • Diameter: 14cm
Gallery label
Drug jar Made in Paterna or Manises, Valencia, Spain about 1400 Tin-glazed earthenware 47-1907 Formerly Henry Wallis Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Though catalogued by Rackham as a Florentine imitation of a Valencian drug-jar, in shape and decoration this is a characteristic Valencian product of c. 1400. Ray (2000).

Purchase. Formerly Henry Wallis Collection.
Bibliographic reference
Ray, Anthony. Spanish Pottery 1248-1898 : with a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum London, V&A Publications, 2000
Other numbers
  • 96 - Spanish pottery, Ray (2000)
  • 50 - Rackham (1940)
Collection
Accession number
47-1907

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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