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ca. 1650 (made)
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Place of origin

Gourd with coloured decoration, and fitted with a silver sprinkler cap

Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Gourd with <i>barniz de Pasto</i> decoration, and silver
Brief description
Gourd decorated with barniz de Pasto; silver mounts and stopper. Viceroyalty of Peru, ca. 1650
Physical description
Gourd with coloured decoration, and fitted with a silver sprinkler cap
Dimensions
  • Height: 11cm (Note: NH 3/2023)
  • Diameter: 5.4cm
Dims. from accession register: 3 3/4 x 1 7/8 ins.
Object history
Bought at Leon for £1. 0. 0. (1865)
'Perfume casting bottle, formed of a gourd coated with lac varnish which is painted with coloured arabesques on black ground: the sprinkler is of silver. Portuguese(?), 17th century'
Bibliographic reference
Burgio, Lucia, Dana Melchar, Stanislav Strekopytov, et al., 'Identification, characterisation and mapping of calomel as 'mercury white', a previously undocumented pigment from South America, and its use on a barniz de pasto cabinet at the Victoria and Albert Museum'. In: Microchemical Journal, vol. 143, December 2018, pp. 220-227.
Collection
Accession number
28-1866

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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