Description
cylindrical, painted in blue, dark blue, yellow, and ochre, with bands of twisted rope on the upper and lower sloping walls with a band of foliated grotesque decoration in shades of blue and yellow on an ochre ground on the walls, the label inscribed 'ELMO DATARI' (possibly for tartarum emeticum)
Dimensions
12.4cm diameter, 22cm high
Footnote
Note:
A very similar jar with the same twisted rope borders and grotesques decoration on an ochre ground is in the collection at the Château d'Ecouen at the Musée National de la Renaissance illustrated in Majolique - La faïence italienne au temps des humanistes 1480-1530, Paris, 2011, cat 6, p. 36, F. Barbe et al. Another similar albarello is in the V&A and is dated 1501. (See Bernard Rackham, Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London 1940, Reprinted with corrections and additional bibliography by J.V.G. Mallet, cat 364, plate 58, London, 1977)