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

Drug Bottle

1510-1530 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Tuscany (made)

Large drug jar with two handles, 'GENTZIANA', made in Tuscany, 1510-30


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Object type
Drug bottle
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Brief description
Large drug jar with two handles, 'GENTZIANA', made in Tuscany, 1510-30
Marks and inscriptions
'GENTZIANA'
Translation
Gentian
Gallery label
Drug bottle Made in Tuscany 1510-30 Inscription: 'GENTZIANA' ( Gentian) Tin-glazed earthenware 7840-1861 The root of Gentian is used in pharmaceutical recipies(16/07/2008)
Object history
The root of Gentian is used in pharmaceutical recipes.
Production
J Mallet, 11/04/2003
Very important
Large drug jar, one handle missing, piece badly flaking (partly consolidated) painted with inscription GENTZIANA Companion piece with 7841-1861. also further companion piece mentioned in new Cat. of Gillet Collection in Lyon.
It could be Montelupo

J Poole, 1995
Tuscany, ca.1510-30

Notes in Rackham cat:
It could be montelupo by comparison with Berti/Pasquinelli 1984, p.108. the tendency of tin-glaze to flake off is un-florentine but very Tuscan.
Of same series as NO.40 in "169 Pieces de la Collection de faience Paul Gillet", Lyon, 1943
Bibliographic references
  • Poole, J.E. Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge, 1995. Catalogue entry 215.
  • Fiocco, Carola, Gabriella Gherardi and Liliane Sfeir-Fakhri. Majoliques Italiennes du Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Lyon: Collection Gillet. Dijon : Faton, 2001. No.37.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
248 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
7840-1861

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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