id: 123272 accession number: 1943.52 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.52 updated: 2020-06-10 09:01:44.803000 Pair of Pharmacy Bottles, c. 1500-1510. Italy, Papal States, Faenza. Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica); overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1943.52 title: Pair of Pharmacy Bottles title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1500-1510 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1510 current location: 118 Italian Renaissance creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Papal States, Faenza technique: tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in lower ribbon band of 1943.52.1: A. SCABIOS. Written in lower ribbon band of 1943.52.2: A. CAPILLV. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * No existing exhibition history. --- PROVENANCE (F. A. Drey, London). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: During the Renaissance, aristocrats tested the speed and agility of their greyhounds in a sport called “hare coursing.” digital description: The inscriptions on these two pharmacy bottles suggest that they held medicinal and domestic remedies. One bottle reads SCABIOS, or “scabious water,” which may refer to a teasel root compound that was used to clean and decontaminate velvet. Inscribed on the other bottle is the word CAPILLV, which was a liquid extracted from a fern-like plant commonly referred to as “maiden’s hair water.” wall description: The inscriptions on these two pharmacy bottles suggest that they held medicinal and domestic remedies. The bottle on the left reads SCABIOS, or “scabious water,” which may refer to a teasel root compound that was used to clean and decontaminate velvet. Inscribed on the other bottle is the word CAPILLV, which was a liquid extracted from a fern-like plant commonly referred to as “maiden’s hair water.” --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Milliken, William M. "Italian Majolica." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 1 (January 1944): 7-15.
Only Pharmacy Bottle (1943.52.2) reproduced. page number: Mentioned: p. 10, Reproduced: pp. 13-14 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25141102 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
Only Pharmacy Bottle (1943.52.1) mentioned and reproduced. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 217 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n49 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
Only Pharmacy Bottle (1943.52.1) reproduced. page number: Reproduced: p. 84 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n108 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
Only Pharmacy Bottle (1943.52.1) reproduced. page number: Reproduced: p. 84 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n108 Cole, Bruce. Italian Maiolica from Midwestern Collections. Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum, 1977.
Only Pharmacy Bottle (1943.52.2) mentioned & reproduced. Published as Drug Bottle. page number: Mentioned: p. 36, cat. no. 11; Reproduced: p. 37 url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=4542199 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
Only Pharmacy Bottle (1943.52.1) reproduced. Published as Drug Bottle. page number: Reproduced: p. 97 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n117 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 39, fig. 41 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.52/1943.52_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.52/1943.52_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.52/1943.52_full.tif