1 6E Illustration of "siropus acetosus"
from Theatrum sanitatis (Northern
Italy, late fourteenth century).
Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense,
Ms. 4182, fol. 183R. The druggist's
pharmaceuticals are stored in what
appear to be maiolica albarelli
and wet-drug pitchers on the shelf
behind him. The preparation
illustrated here, "vinegar syrup,"
was used to calm coughs and
cure diarrhea.
Notes
- Grieve 1971, 474-76.
- Borgarucci 1567, 117.
- See Governale 1986, passim.
- Sale cat., Galardelli, Florence, Collection de Mr. Carlo Giovene de Gira-
sole, objets d'art et de haute curiosite, February 26, 1925, lot 189; sale
cat., Sotheby's, London, November 22, lot 211; and Chompret 1949,
2 : fig. 370.
- Berardi 1984, figs. 28 (especially c and n), 31 (especially 1), 37, 5 1
(especially d). For more information on Pesarese maiolica production
see Bettini 1997, 31-95; Bettini 1991, 12-18.
- Governale 1986, figs. 449, 457, for the work of Nicola Lo Sciuto
(Luxutusu) of Sciacca, and fig. 452b, for a jar belonging to the Ospedale
Grande di Messina, Sicily; Governale 1995, figs. 290-91 (with a motto
identified as "it must happen" in Sicilian dialect); Donatone 1993A,
pis. 13 (with arms of Ferrante of Aragon, king of Naples), 24, 42-43
(with arms of Alfonso V of Aragon, duke of Calabria). Finally, a globular
jar (with the arms of Duke Alfonso), although of different shape, is deco
rated with scrolling leaves remarkably similar to those on the Getty
albarello (Governale 1995, fig. 318); see also Navarra 2001, 50-55-
7. Donatone 1993A, 32-38.
8. See, for example, the comparable, finely rendered Gothic inscriptions
illustrated in Berardi 1984, figs. 38-39, 401-J-
9. Sale cat., Christie's, London, July 2, 1990, lot 191.
10. Rasmussen 1989, nos. 20-21.
11. Shinn 1982, 11, no. 10.
- Kube 1976, no. 5.
- Giacomotti 1974, no. 127.
- Sale cat., Sotheby's, London, June 21 , 1976, lot 10.
- Chompret 1949, 2: fig. 367.
- Sale cat., Sotheby's 1965, lots 22-23,^2 5-
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