TWO-HANDLED APOTHECARY JAR (ORCIOLO)
FLORENTINE AREA, MONTELUPO, 1420–30
Earthenware, covered with a creamy-white glaze and painted in zaffera blue (relief cobalt and lead blue) and manganese purple
H. 19.7 cm; mouth diam. 10.9 cm; foot diam. 11 cm
Below the handle, ‘star’ workshop mark painted in manganese
On the bottom, paper label hand-written in ink ‘OAK LEAF DRUG POT /-Wallis-/ V&A museum plate 9’
Beneath the base, some etched measure marks