Two-Handled "Oak Leaf" Pharmacy Jar with Fleur-de-Lys (c. 1430–50): Art, History and Details

Two-Handled "Oak Leaf" Pharmacy Jar with Fleur-de-Lys (c. 1430–50) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Giunta di Tugio (Italian, c. 1382–1450).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Giunta di Tugio was the most important maiolica ceramist of his time in Florence. Di Tugio was trained in his father's workshop, which he took over following his father's death around 1419, managing it for the next thirty years. According to documents, by 1417 di Tugio was a member of the council of oliandoli, or oil merchants.

Object facts

• Title: Two-Handled "Oak Leaf" Pharmacy Jar with Fleur-de-Lys
• Date: c. 1430–50
• Creator attribution: Giunta di Tugio (Italian, c. 1382–1450)
• Culture: Italy, Florence
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
• Dimensions: Overall: 29.6 cm (11 5/8 in.)
• Collection: MED - Renaissance
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1943.391

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Milliken, William. "Italian Majolica." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 1 (January 1944): 7-15.

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