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MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Flora and Fauna / Animals / Snake / Miscellaneous
Flora and Fauna / Fabulous animals / Sphinx
Flora and Fauna / Monsters / Human-headed animals

ORNAMENT

Festoons
Grotesques
Scrollwork

Further details

Storage jar with cartouche with the makers name and blank cartouche for the name of the contents to be added by the pharmacist, surrounded by masks, sphinx and various hybrid grotesque creatures with festoons and scrollwork. The handles are in the form of serpents

Artist or creator

Savino, Giovan Paolo workshop of Diomede Durante

Date

1600

Location

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Timothy Wilson, Italian Maiolica and Europe, Oxford 2017, cat. no. 134 (b)

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back view of object
front view of other jar in pair
back view of other vase in pair

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