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Drug jar

Title	Drug jar
Author	Unknown
Publication Date:	1450
Publication Place	Valencia (made) -
Subject	Ceramics
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	Height: 29.1cm, Diameter: 13cm
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	10-1907
Record ID	10-1907
Library Location	Middle East Section
Date	1450
Notes	Jars of this type were used in wealthy households for the storage for dried fruits such as raisins. They were sealed with a piece of parchment tied around the neck with a piece of string. The waisted sides make it easier to grip the jar. Lustre-decorated ceramics were exported in quantities to Italy. From about 1450, Italian potters copied decorative motifs and shapes from Valencian imports. Initially they used orange or purple alongside blue to achieve similar colour combinations and designs until they fully mastered the lustre technique around 1500.
Malzemeler ve teknikler	Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration
Fiziksel açıklama	Tall waisted drug-jar. Tin-glazed earthenware, decorated with an ivy leaf pattern painted in blue and lustre.
Üretim	ca. 1450-75 or later. Three drug-jars of this type are in the Musee de Cluny (inv. nos. 2778, 2756, 2757), see Montagut, 'Reflejos de Manises', Valencia 1996, p.82. They are similarly decorated with the blue and lustre ivy leaf motif in horizontal bands, separated every two lines by horizontal lines of blue. Montagut dates them to the last quarter of the 15th century.

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Drug jar

Author Unknown

Publication Date 1450

Publication Place Valencia (made) -

Subject Ceramics

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions Height: 29.1cm, Diameter: 13cm

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID 10-1907

Record ID 10-1907

Library Location Middle East Section

Date 1450

Notes Jars of this type were used in wealthy households for the storage for dried fruits such as raisins. They were sealed with a piece of parchment tied around the neck with a piece of string. The waisted sides make it easier to grip the jar. Lustre-decorated ceramics were exported in quantities to Italy. From about 1450, Italian potters copied decorative motifs and shapes from Valencian imports. Initially they used orange or purple alongside blue to achieve similar colour combinations and designs until they fully mastered the lustre technique around 1500.

Malzemeler ve teknikler Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration

Fiziksel açıklama Tall waisted drug-jar. Tin-glazed earthenware, decorated with an ivy leaf pattern painted in blue and lustre.

Üretim ca. 1450-75 or later. Three drug-jars of this type are in the Musee de Cluny (inv. nos. 2778, 2756, 2757), see Montagut, 'Reflejos de Manises', Valencia 1996, p.82. They are similarly decorated with the blue and lustre ivy leaf motif in horizontal bands, separated every two lines by horizontal lines of blue. Montagut dates them to the last quarter of the 15th century.