MAKE A MEME View Large Image Workshop of Orazio Pompei - Spouted Apothecary Jar - Walters 481488.jpg Glazed earthenware was popular for containers for the remedies dispensed by Renaissance pharmacists These jars were arranged in easily accessible shelves around the ...
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Keywords: Workshop of Orazio Pompei - Spouted Apothecary Jar - Walters 481488.jpg Glazed earthenware was popular for containers for the remedies dispensed by Renaissance pharmacists These jars were arranged in easily accessible shelves around the walls of the apothecary's shop with painted or attached labels to identify their contents This jar is part of a large and distinctive group of wares often called the Orsini-Colonna series because a plate from the series now in the British Museum celebrates the reconciliation of these two rival families The inscription reveals indicates that the jar was for syrup made from the flowers of French lavender Lavandula stoechas used to soothe headaches and relax nerves Witty and fantastic ornaments were common to apothecary wares as on this jar where the healing syrup would have flowed from the mouth of a dragon ca 1530 1560 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 26 5 11 4 accession number 48 1488 21972 Sale London March 1855 lot 2079 Ralph Bernal London 1855 by purchase no 2079 Octavius E Coope Brentwood Essex by purchase no 29 Sale Christie's London May 3 1910 no 29 Harding London 1916 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1916 place of origin Castelli Italy keys de Stegkanne en bridge-spouted jug Walters Art Museum license Media from the Walters Art Museum no creator template Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Ceramic jugs bridge-spouted Castelli maiolica Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Walters Art Museum
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