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- Date of production 17th century
- Place of creation Savona, Italy
- Dimensions height: 42.3 cm, diameter: base: 16 cm
- ID no. KGZ 5919
- Museum The Museum of Pharmacy at the Jagiellonian University Medical College in Kraków
- Subjects daily life, health, painted
- Technique baking, underglaze painting
- Material maiolica
- Object copyright The Museum of Pharmacy at the Jagiellonian University Medical College in Kraków
- Digital images copyright public domain
- Digitalisation RDW MIC, Małopolska's Virtual Museums project
- Tags health , disease , medicine , ceramics , vessel , pharmacy , plants , 3D , storage , public domain
A hydria type apothecary vase. Majolica. Savona (Italy). The 2nd half of the 17th century. Handles in the shape of (fantastic) animal heads on massive bent necks. In the front, at the bottom, there is a relief of a gargoyle. In its mouth there is an opening to pour out the content of the vase, plugged with a standard cork. There are smaller gargoyles without openings on the sides of the vessel, under the handles.
more A hydria type apothecary vase. Majolica. Savona (Italy). The 2nd half of the 17th century. Handles in the shape of (fantastic) animal heads on massive bent necks. In the front, at the bottom, there is a relief of a gargoyle. In its mouth there is an opening to pour out the content of the vase, plugged with a standard cork. There are smaller gargoyles without openings on the sides of the vessel, under the handles. The decoration in the front, under the inscription, presents a human figure holding a two-headed dragon on a rope. The decoration behind it depicts a centaur slaying a dragon. Colours: various shades of blue. Writing on the banderole: Aquæ. Plantag:s (Aquæ Plantaginis). Aqua Plantaginis is a water distillate from the leaves of a Plantago major L. plant... “Plantago water is good for wounds, and because it is pungent, it is also good for any diarrhoea, especially if one has wounds in his bowels. It should be drunk often and administered with an enema. This opens the clogged liver and spleen, cools the blood from inflammation and allows healthy body to grow over fistulas, as it has the property of making body tissue grow, especially in old wounds. It stops excessive bleeding of haemorrhoids if one washes his rectum, that is, the end of the bowel, with it. It also stops toothaches if one washes his mouth with it.” (Marcin Siennik, Herbarz [Herbarium], Kraków, 1568, p. 235). The vase has a distinguishable base, a bulging belly turning into a neck in the upper part, which ends with a wide flange. Two handles in the shape of fantastic animal heads on S-shaped massive fluted necks. There is a cobalt figurative and floral decoration throughout the surface of the vessel. On the belly of the vase there is a pharmaceutical description: Aquae Plantag.s (Aquae Plantaginis), which is a water distillate of Plantago lanceolata L. or Plantago major L. called “Plantago water”. The vessel is signed.
The exhibit from the collection of apothecary ceramics was donated to the Museum by the Master of Pharmacy Mateusz Bronisław Grabowski from London in 1976.
Elaborated by the Museum of Pharmacy at the Jagiellonian University Medical College in Kraków, © all rights reserved
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