Albarello (pharmacy jar)
On display
Details
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Title
Albarello (pharmacy jar)
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Associated place
Siena (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1500 - 1510 -
Material and technique
earthenware, tin-glazed (maiolica)
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Object type
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Dimensions
13.4 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by C. D. E. Fortnum, 1888.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 40 | European Ceramics -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1888.CDEF.C411
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Glossary of terms
earthenware
Further reading
Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica (Oxford/Phaidon, Christie's in association with the Ashmolean Museum, 1989), 3
Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica and Europe: Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum, 1 (Oxford/Ashmolean Museum, 2017), pp. 112-113 no. 47
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