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Pharmacy jar
(Albarello)
(c. 1510)
Medium
earthenware (maiolica)
Measurements
28.1 × 14.2 cm diameter
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1970
Gallery location
16th & 17th Century Gallery - Painting and Sculpture
Mezzanine linked to Level 1, NGV International
About this work
The careful and elaborate grotesque ornament on this jar, part of a group of early sixteenth-century Siennese albarellos, seems to owe something to Pinturicchio, one of the artists who, in Rome from the 1480s onwards, took special interest in the newly discovered wall paintings in ancient Roman buildings, such as Nero’s Golden House.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Siena, Italy
Accession Number
D64-1970
Department
International Decorative Arts
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Physical description
"Albarello", tin-glazed, waisted shape, flaring rim, painted in blue, orange, yellow, copper-green etc.