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Drug Jar

17th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drug jar, tin-glazed earthenware, Southern Italy, 17th century

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Drug jar, tin-glazed earthenware, Southern Italy, 17th century
Dimensions
  • Height: 32.5cm
  • Diameter: 22.5cm
Gallery label
(16/07/2008)
Drug jar
Made in Italy
Tin-glazed earthenware

578-1884
Object history
Bought from the executors of W. Buller
Production
A bottle with identical design & colouring in the Bodenheim Collection was shown in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1948. Photograph in Dept. Collection (Netherlands). It was classed as Netherlands but the blue looked colder then other Netherlands pieces.
The drug-pot (albarello) in Sicily section, L'Arte X, 1939 p. 113 Fig. 7 Same albarello ref. in G. Russo Perez, Catalogo ragionato della raccolta Russo-Perez di maioliche siciliane, n. d. about 1954, p. 152 no. 41.

see Nicaise, H.: Les Modeles Italiens des faiences nederlandaises au XVIe et au debout du XVIIe siecle. Pl.X, Fig.18, & PP. 129-130 (Bulletin de l'Institut historique belge de Rome,.Fase XVII.1936).
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
1023 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
578-1884

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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