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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Italian
Title:Albarello
Date Made:early 17th century
Type:Container; Medical
Materials:Ceramic; Earthenware; polychrome pigments with tin glaze (majolica)
Place Made:Europe; Italy; Sicily
Measurements:Overall: 10 in x 5 7/8 in; 25.4 cm x 14.9225 cm
Narrative Inscription:  inscription: lwr. centered under bust (black on white ground): ōfeº. [de?]. mīua cº. ; inscription: vertically along bust (black on yellow): ROGIERE or ROCIERE
Accession Number:  MH 2002.3.44
Credit Line:Joseph J. Hammer Collection, Gift of Roy A. Hammer
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Decorated with a medallion containing a helmeted warrior in profile, inscribed "ROGIERE" and surrounded by yellow and ochre scrollwork on a blue ground, a label with the name of the drug around the lower part. Lip broken at time of transit.

Tags:
pottery; containers; medicine

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