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

Drug Jar

1450-1475 (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, possibly made in the Florentine area, Italy, 1450-75.
Physical description
Drug jar, tin-glazed earthenware.
Dimensions
  • Height: 39.5cm
  • Diameter: 20.5cm
Gallery label
Drug jar Made in Possibly Florentine area, Italy 1450-75 Tin-glazed earthenware 631-1902(16/07/2008)
Object history
Bardini Collection. Bardini Sale Cat., Christie's, 27 May 1902, Lot 461, French ed. pl. 16.

Purchase price note: Bought for £23 2s.
Production
Possibly Florentine area.

J Mallet
Big albarello, about 1450-1475.

Stated by Cora (Storia della maiolica di Firenze etc. 1973, n. 146 A) to be Florentine Zone.
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
54 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
631-1902

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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