Albarello
Albarello
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- Description
- This albarello has a flared foot and is painted with decorative blue, yellow, and green flowers, and leaves and vines. In the center of the jar is a portrait of the Madonna holding the infant Jesus. Mary wears a gold dress with blue mantle and a gold crown on her head. In her left hand Mary holds two cords attached to two squares. Just below Mary are the heads of three females engulfed in the flames of hell. George Urdang attributes this jar to 18th–century Castelli.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- jar
- jar, albarello
- date made
- 18th century
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 23 cm x 13 cm; 9 1/16 in x 5 1/8 in
- overall: 9 in x 5 in; 22.86 cm x 12.7 cm
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0571
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05783
- collector/donor number
- SAP 495
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0571
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Pharmacy
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Religion
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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