About the Artwork
Drug Jar
early 16th century
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Italian
Italian
Tin-glazed earthenware with polychrome decoration
Overall: 17 × 9 1/4 × 9 1/8 inches (43.2 × 23.5 × 23.2 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Rosemarie and Ernest Kanzler
62.137.2
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed: a[qua].de.boragine [water of borage]
Provenance
Salvadori collection (Florence, Italy)
Whitney Warren (New York, New York, USA)
1943, Warren sale, lot 532 (French and Co., New York, New York, USA)
1962-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Le Maioliche Cinquecentiesche di Castelli. Exh. cat., Museo delle Genti d'Abruzzo and Museo delle Ceramiche. Pescara and Castelli, 1989, cat. no. 509, p. C56 (ill.), p. 165.
Bulletin of the DIA 87, no. 1/4: Italian Renaissance and Later Ceramics (2013): cat. no. 25.
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Italian, Drug Jar, early 16th century, tin-glazed earthenware with polychrome decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Rosemarie and Ernest Kanzler, 62.137.2.
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