Description
the ovoid body with a long cylindrical neck, painted in blue, yellow, orange, green, brown and purple, in the centre a circular medallion with profile of a helmeted woman with the inscription 'IPOLITA' on a scrolling ribbon behind. On a label below the inscription 'Loch: De Suguiff(?SS)a', (Lohoch: De ?Sugo - ?honeyed juice) on the reverse the date 1548 on a scroll, all on a ground of compartmentalised decoration, 'a quartieri', filled in with scrolling foliage on a dark blue, green or ochre ground
Dimensions
26cm diameter, 36cm high
Footnote
Provenance:
Property of a Gentleman of Title
In the collection of the family of the present owners since the late 19th / early 20th century. Entries in the family archives suggest that maiolica was acquired between 1894 and 1916 from three different sources: from G. Donaldson in 1894 (with two items bought from the Spitzer Collection) in 1896 and in 1897; from H.A. Peto in 1899 and from S.M. Crossley in 1908 and in November 1916.
Note:
For inscribed dated apothecary jars from the same series with similar decoration and shape in the Louvre and in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Cologne, see J.Giacomotti, Les majoliques des Musées nationaux, cat. 959, p.313, Paris 1974, and B.Klesse, Majolika Kataloge des Kunstgewerbemuseum, cat. 281,Cologne, 1966. See R.E. A. Drey, Apothecary Jars, London, 1978, p.211 and p.233 for references to the contents.