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        "tombstone": "Pharmacy Bottle, c. 1500\u20131510. 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, 1943.52.2",
        "current_location": "118 Italian Renaissance",
        "title": "Pharmacy Bottle",
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        "technique": "tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)",
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        "department": "Decorative Art and Design",
        "collection": "Decorative Arts",
        "type": "Ceramic",
        "measurements": "Overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.)",
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            {
                "inscription": "written in lower ribbon band: A. CAPILLV.",
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                    "id": 444150,
                    "title": "Italian Majolica from Midwestern Collections",
                    "description": "<i>Italian Majolica from Midwestern Collections</i>. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (organizer) (September 4-October 8, 1977).",
                    "opening_date": "1977-09-04T04:00:00"
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        "did_you_know": "The peacock feather design lining the bottom of this bottle was especially popular in Faenza, near Bologna, during the Renaissance.",
        "description": "Pharmacy bottles that lined the shelves of Renaissance pharmacies often held medicinal herbs, spices, and ointments. The inscription on this bottle reads CAPILLV, which was a liquid extracted from a fern-like plant commonly referred to as \u201cmaiden\u2019s hair water.\u201d",
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            {
                "citation": "Milliken, William M. \"Italian Majolica.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 1 (January 1944): 7-15.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 10, Reproduced: pp. 13-14",
                "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25141102"
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                "citation": "Cole, Bruce. <em>Italian Maiolica from Midwestern Collections. </em>Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum, 1977.<br>Published as <em>Drug Bottle.</em>",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 36, cat. no. 11; Reproduced: p. 37",
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
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