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 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: A. CAPILLV. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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 * No existing exhibition history. --- PROVENANCE (F. A. Drey, London). date: footnotes: citations: --- 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: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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. Italian Maiolica from Midwestern Collections. Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum, 1977.
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 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.52.2/1943.52.2_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.52.2/1943.52.2_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.52.2/1943.52.2_full.tif