albarello

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Object Type: albarello
Museum number: 1888,0702.1
Description: Straight-sided albarello with two hollow handles (one broken) resting on sphinxes; between them applied relief faces (one lost). Earthenware covered on the outside with a brown, opaque (tin?) glaze. Painted decoration; garlands round the relief faces. Rest of field has scrolling tendrils with flowers on an orange ground. Extensive damage and glaze loss.
Production date: 1490-1500 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Pesaro (probably)
Materials: earthenware
Ware: Maiolica
Technique: tin-glazed; relief
Dimensions: Diameter: 15 centimetres (base); Height: 29.50 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 36); Wallis 1904 / Italian Ceramic Art. The Albarello. A Study in Early Renaissance Maiolica (fig79)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: sphinx; flower; plant; leaf
Acquisition name: Donated by: Sir John Charles Robinson
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1888,0702.1

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