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Ewer,
ca. 1550
Italian
y1956-12
Scholars of Italian ceramics identified a group of nearly three hundred related pharmacy jars and pitchers, easily recognizable by their decoration of caricature-like heads, of which this is a typical example. It was not known where they were produced, however, until the 1980s, when excavations at the workshop of Orazio Pompeii, in the small mountain town of Castelli, east of Rome, proved decisively that these works were manufactured there. The products must have been exported to Rome and southern Italy, as enough are known to have outfitted several pharmacies. The differences in style may be due to an evolution over time, or to the hands of different members of a large workshop.
More About This Object
Information
Title
Ewer
Dates
ca. 1550
Medium
Maiolica (tin glazed earthenware)
Dimensions
21.9 × diam. 14.5 cm (8 5/8 × 5 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Eugene L. Garbaty
Object Number
y1956-12
Place Made
Europe, Italy, possibly Castelli
Culture
Materials
Subject
Adolf von Beckerath (Krefeld 1834-1915 Berlin); [Rudolph Lepke Sale #1755, Nachlass Adolf von Beckerath Berlin. Berlin, May 23-26, Lot 701]. Eugene L. Garbaty (Berlin 1885-1966 East Norwalk, Connecticut) [1]; gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1956.
[1] Eugene Garbaty brought his extensive collection of fine and decorative art from Germany to the US in 1939. His lawyer destroyed his records to aid his escape from the Nazi regime, obscuring the vendor and date of his purchase. See Victoria Reed, “The Eugene Garbáty Collection of European Art,” Collections 10, nr. 3 (2014): 321-330.
