albarello

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Object Type
Museum number: 1898,0523.1
Description: Straight-sided albarello with flanged rim. Refined earthenware, covered outside with presumed tin glaze; interior and base unglazed. Painted in relief-blue with running foliage round the neck and two panels of similar foliage on the body. One side, a lion rampant with leaf and oak-leaf in background; other side a shield of arms: manganese, two swords in saltire surmounted by a hat. Probably for Cardinal Astorgio Agnese of Naples.
Production date: 1448-1451 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Tuscany; Made in: Florence (province) (?; perhaps); Made in: Siena (town) (?; perhaps)
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 15 centimetres (max); Height: 32.50 centimetres; Weight: 1750 grammes
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 24); Wilson 1987 / Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance (23); Wallis 1903 / Oak Leaf Jars: A fifteenth century Italian ware showing Moresco influence (fig14, fig15); Cora 1973 / Storia della maiolica di Firenze e del contado: Secoli XIV e XV (fig80a, fig80c); Rackham 1963 / Italian Maiolica (fig2a)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2015-2016 4 Nov- 28 Mar, London, National Gallery, Visions of Paradise: Bottincini's Palmieri Altarpiece. 1989 12 Sep-15 Oct, Glasgow, Art Gallery & Museum, Ceramics for the Italian Renaissance 1989 22 Jan-2 Apr, Stoke-on-Trent, City Museum & Art Gallery, Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance
Subjects: heraldry; plant; leaf
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1898
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1898,0523.1

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