id:			123274
accession number:	1943.52.2
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.52.2
updated:		2022-01-04 15:29:15.660000

Pharmacy Bottle, 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 1943.52.2

title:				Pharmacy Bottle
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series:				
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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:			

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culture:	Italy, Papal States, Faenza
technique:	tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Decorative Arts
type:		Ceramic
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.)
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support materials:


inscriptions:

	inscription:	written in lower ribbon band: A. CAPILLV.
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Italian Majolica from Midwestern Collections
	opening date:   1977-09-04T04:00:00
	<i>Italian Majolica from Midwestern Collections</i>. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (organizer) (September 4-October 8, 1977).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* No existing exhibition history.

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PROVENANCE

	(F. A. Drey, London).
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fun fact: 
The peacock feather design lining the bottom of this bottle was especially popular in Faenza, near Bologna, during the Renaissance.

digital 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 “maiden’s hair water.”

wall description: 

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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

	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
	url:		http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=4542199

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