Pharmacy jar for water of fumitory, with two siren shaped handles, a satyr mask, and decorated in blue with scrolling foliage
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Details
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Title
Pharmacy jar for water of fumitory, with two siren shaped handles, a satyr mask, and decorated in blue with scrolling foliage
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Associated place
Genoa (probable) (probable place of creation) -
Date
c. 1585 -
Material and technique
earthenware, tin-glazed (maiolica)
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Object type
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Dimensions
41 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Bequeathed by Walter Ison, through the Art Fund, 1998.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 56 | Arts of the Renaissance -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1998.213
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Glossary of terms
earthenware
Further reading
Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica and Europe: Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum, 1 (Oxford/Ashmolean Museum, 2017), pp. 70-71 no. 19
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