id:			123295
accession number:	1943.54
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.54
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Two-Handled "Oak Leaf" Drug Jar with Male and Female Portraits , 1431. Workshop of Giunta di Tugio (Italian, c. 1382–1450). Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica); overall: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1943.54

title:				Two-Handled "Oak Leaf" Drug Jar with Male and Female Portraits 
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creation date:			1431
creation date earliest:		1431
creation date latest:		1431
current location:		117A Italian Renaissance
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Italy, Florence, 15th century
technique:	tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Renaissance
type:		Ceramic
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CREATORS

* Giunta di Tugio (Italian, c. 1382–1450)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage
	opening date:   1971-10-29T04:00:00
	<i>Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 1971-January 2, 1972).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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wall description:
This two-handled drug container with a bulbous body and short neck belongs to a group of wares known as "oak leaf jars" because of their decoration. This example includes two profile busts amid blue-on-white oak leaves on branching stems. On each handle is a crutch, painted in green and manganese. This was the badge of the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence. The star motif below the crutch is the workshop mark of the ceramist Giunta di Tugio, known to have received this commission in the year 1431. In the early Middle Ages hospitals were simple hospices set up outside cities to offer food and lodging to pilgrims and travelers. The Santa Maria Nuova hospital, by the mid-1300s the largest in Florence, was the first hospital in that city dedicated primarily to caring for the sick.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 216
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n49

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 78
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n102

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 78
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n102

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 89
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n109

	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. T<em>he World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 38, fig. 40
	url:		

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IMAGES

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