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

lie Unknown artist. An Apothecary's Shop (detail) from Avicenna's Canon,
ca. 1440. Tempera on vellum. Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria,
Ms. 2197, fol. 492A, 38B. Maiolica albarelli decorated with Kufic script
fill the shelves of this shop as the pharmacist prepares a drug using a
mortar and pestle.

1 ID Jar. Probably Manises, ca. 1400. Tin-glazed earthen­

ware, H: 31 cm (12/8 in.). Madrid, Instituto de Valencia

de Don Juan.

Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples (inv. 46);^20

Hoffmann-La Roche collection, Basel (inv. 244);^21 Na­

tional Museum of Stockholm,-^22 formerly Spano col­

lection, Messina;^23 early pharmacy of the Minorite

brothers at San Romano Valdarno, near Pisa;^24 and an ex­

ample presently on the art market.^25 Two of the twenty-

five jars are adorned on the front with a coat of arms

within a wreath—identified as belonging to either the

Marzalogli or Buffoni families of Bologna—and, one can

assume, originate from a pharmacy belonging to the

patron family.^26

72 Jar with a Kufic Pattern