Pharmacy bottle (one of a pair)

Unknown

ca. 1500–1510 · Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware) · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

The Latin mottos "Virtue always burns" and "Virtue has no value if one has no faith" may relate to the bottles’ owner, whose coat of arms appears between the inscriptions. Prominent labels indicate that the vessels (see also 02.5.58) once held extracts of wood bettony and maidenhair fern.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1500–1510

Medium

Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

Culture

Italian, Deruta

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of William B. Osgood Field, 1902