Globular jar
Maker
(ceramicist)
1500-1599
1500-1599
Title
Globular jar
Date of Production
1560 - 1580
Medium
tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
Height: 27.4 cm
Diameter: 14 cm
Diameter: 14 cm
Accession Number
O.1966.GP.127
Mode of Acquisition
Gambier Parry, bequest, 1966
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
This large jar may have been used to store preserved fruits.
Cipriano di Michele Piccolpasso (1524-1579), a celebrated painter of maiolica, wrote in his Li tre libri dell'arte del vasajo (Three Books of the Potter’s Art) that fruit and flower patterns ‘are truly Venetian, very graceful things’.
Cipriano di Michele Piccolpasso (1524-1579), a celebrated painter of maiolica, wrote in his Li tre libri dell'arte del vasajo (Three Books of the Potter’s Art) that fruit and flower patterns ‘are truly Venetian, very graceful things’.
Provenance
Purchased by Thomas Gambier Parry before 1875
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