Pharmacy Bottle
c. 1500–1510
Maker Unknown
Decorative Art and Design
Pharmacy Bottle, c. 1500–1510. Italy, Papal States, Faenza. Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica); overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1943.52.1 Pharmacy bottles that lined the shelves of Renaissance pharmacies often held medicinal herbs, spices, and ointments. The inscription on this bottle reads SCABIOS, or “scabious water,” which may refer to a teasel root compound that was used to clean and decontaminate velvet. During the Renaissance, aristocrats tested the speed and agility of their greyhounds in a sport called "hare coursing."
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
- Medium
- tin-glazed, earthenware, maiolica
- Dimensions
- Overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: written in lower ribbon band: A. SCABIOS.
- Departments
- Decorative Art and Design
- Accession Number
- 1943.52.1
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- No existing exhibition history.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 118 Italian Renaissance
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