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| Maker(s): | Unknown | | Culture: | Italian
| | Title: | Wet drug jar
| | Date Made: | ca. 1600
| | Type: | Container; Medical
| | Materials: | Ceramic; Earthenware; polychrome pigments with tin glaze (majolica)
| | Place Made: | Europe; Italy; possibly Faenza, Emilia Romagna or the Marches
| | Measurements: | overall: 13 1/2 in x 12 1/8 in; 34.29 cm x 30.7975 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | Inscription: centered beneath spout (Dark blue on a lighter blue): •A • D • POTVLACA •
| | Accession Number: | MH 2002.3.5
| | Credit Line: | Joseph J. Hammer Collection, Gift of Roy A. Hammer
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Ovoid form with spout and double scroll handle. Light blue ground with all-over leafy scroll meander in darker blue. Scrollwork banderole with the name of the drug "A.D.PORTULACA."; below is a coat of arms in orange and yellow with a medieval tower. Chips and restored cracks.
Tags:
pottery; containers; medicine Subjects:
polychrome; glaze (coating by location); Containers; Pottery Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=MH+2002.3.5 |
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