Italian Ceramics: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection

21 c Alternate view of [.2].^21 D Alternate view of [.2].

The drug jars in the second group are larger (approxi­

mately twenty-four to twenty-five centimeters high) and

fewer in number. This group includes three jars in the

Louvre (inv. OA 7390-91, OA 6306) decorated with the

Annunciate Angel, a youth bearing an animal on his

shoulders and probably representing either the Good

Shepherd or Abel, and Prudence—one of the four cardi­

nal virtues adopted by the Church to teach moral les­

sons—holding a compass and mirror,-^18 and the Getty

Museum's two albarelli.

In addition, in the upper right-hand corner of the

scenes on all five jars from this second group, rays em­

anate from the sky. These rays appear on only one of the

Two Jars 123

OPPOSITE! 2l[.2]