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| Maker(s): | Unknown | | Culture: | Spanish or Italian
| | Title: | Wet drug jar containing a compound made from borage
| | Date Made: | 17th or 18th century
| | Type: | Container; Medical
| | Materials: | Ceramic; Earthenware; polychrome pigments with tin glaze (majolica)
| | Place Made: | Europe; Spain or Italy
| | Measurements: | overall: 12 1/4 in x 10 3/4 in; 31.115 cm x 27.305 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | inscription: ctr. centered beneath spout (black on white ground painted yellow): A.D.BORRAGINE
| | Accession Number: | MH 2002.3.62
| | Credit Line: | Joseph J. Hammer Collection, Gift of Roy A. Hammer
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Double-handled. Decorated with scrolling foliage and blossoms in blue, the label with "A.D. BORRAGIN" in black on yellow, the scrolling handles marbleized. Coat of arms beneath label. Cracked.
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+2002.3.62 |
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