Object Details
Description
This container has two twisted green and white rope-style handles and is decorated with two portraits, one of a man and one of a woman at opposite sides of the container flanked by bands of blue, yellow and green cross hatching. Blue and yellow circular bands appear at the neck and just below the portraits. The container is a little lopsided.
George Urdang pharmaceutical historian attributes this container to either Siena or Castel Durante. In Italian Renaissance Maiolica, art historian Wendy M. Watson, notes in her that albarelli with "two handled drug jars, and decorated in the severe-style" were produced in the Tuscan region. However, exact attribution is very difficult.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
date made
ca 1500
ID Number
1991.0664.0544
accession number
1991.0664
catalog number
M-05756
collector/donor number
SAP 468
catalog number
1991.0664.0544
Object Name
jar
jar
Physical Description
ceramic (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 22.8 cm x 22.4 cm x 12.5 cm; 9 in x 8 13/16 in x 4 15/16 in
overall: 9 in x 10 1/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 22.86 cm x 25.7175 cm x 13.335 cm
Related Publication
Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
Watson, Wendy M.. Italian Renaissance Maiolica: from the Willaim A. Clark Collection
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Medicine
Pharmacy
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_993639