id: 120825 accession number: 1941.550 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.550 updated: 2023-08-23 20:06:14.385000 Pharmacy Jar (Albarello), c. 1475–80. Italy, Florentine region, Cafaggiolo. Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica); overall: 30.5 cm (12 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1941.550 title: Pharmacy Jar (Albarello) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1475–80 creation date earliest: 1470 creation date latest: 1485 current location: 118 Italian Renaissance creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Florentine region, Cafaggiolo technique: tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 30.5 cm (12 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: in ribbon scroll on back: PENIAELFINE. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage opening date: 1971-07-13T04:00:00 Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971). title: Italian Majolica from Midwestern Collections opening date: 1977-09-04T04:00:00 Italian Majolica from Midwestern Collections. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (organizer) (September 4-October 8, 1977). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Kurt Glogowski. (Frederic A. Stern, New York). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: At various points in history, medicinal peony compounds have been prescribed for dizziness, weakness, hysteria, jaundice, and kidney stones. digital description: Storage jars that lined the shelves of Renaissance pharmacies often held medicinal herbs, spices, and ointments. Their shape made them easy to grasp while the flared lip allowed apothecaries to seal off the contents with parchment or cloth secured by a string. A scroll on the back of this vessel indicates that it may have once held a peony compound. wall description: Storage jars that lined the shelves of Renaissance pharmacies often held medicinal herbs, spices, and ointments. Their shape made them easy to grasp while the flared lip allowed apothecaries to seal off the contents with parchment or cloth secured by a string. A scroll on the back of this vessel indicates that it may have once held a peony compound. At various points in history, peony blends have been prescribed for dizziness, weakness, hysteria, jaundice, and kidney stones. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 219 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n49 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 85 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n109 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 85 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n109 Cole, Bruce. Italian Maiolica from Midwestern Collections. Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum, 1977.
Published as: Drug Pot page number: Reproduced: p. 34; Mentioned: p. 35, cat. no. 10 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 96 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n116 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.550/1941.550_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.550/1941.550_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.550/1941.550_full.tif