Drug Jar
CultureItalian
Datemid-16th century
MediumTin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
DimensionsOverall: 12 3/4 × 5 1/8 inches (32.39 × 13.02 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robert Lehman
Object number43-39/3
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DescriptionUrbino jar; yellow ground with ochre, green and deep blue decoration. Medallion of standing boy wearing blue tunic against yellow background.Exhibition HistoryOrigins: Collecting to Create the Nelson-Atkins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 14, 2021-March 6, 2022.
Achille de Clemente (1874-1940), Florence, by January 15, 1931;
Purchased at his sale, Italian Furniture of the Renaissance, The Anderson Galleries, New York, January 15-17, 1931, lot 81, through Richard Ederheimer, by Robert Lehman (1891-1969), New York, no. C21, 1931-1943 [1];
His gift, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1943.
NOTES:
[1] Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Papers, box 82, folder 13.
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