Drug jar
Category
Ceramics
Date
1575 - 1600
Materials
earthenware, tin-opacified lead glaze, polychrome pigments
Measurements
160 mm (Height) x 127 mm (Depth)
Place of origin
Italy
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Knightshayes Court, Devon
NT 540463.1
Summary
Drug jar (albarello), one of two (NT 540463.2), earthenware with tin-glaze (maiolica), made in Venice, Italy, c. 1575-1600; painted with two bust portraits, one of a woman and the other a man, each in a circular reserve, against a blue ground of scrolling fruit and flowers.
Full description
These two albarelli (drug jars) formed part of the Straschnov Collection, a bequest received by the National trust in 1999. The collection included Medieval art, Continental and English furniture of the seventeenth and nineteenth century, silver and pictures, formed by Mr and Mrs Kurt Straschnov (1911-1999), over a long period at their home in Geneva, Switzerland.