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Albarello, multicolored painted with a coat of arms featuring the head of a griffin on either side and a scroll with inscription: JERA PIGRA
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Albarello, multicolored painted with a coat of arms featuring the head of a griffin on either side and a scroll with inscription: JERA PIGRA

anonymous · c. 1500 - c. 1530 · maiolica; polychromy; painting technique; earthenware; tin glaze; lead glaze

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Two drug jars (Albarelli) with the inscription DIA PRASSIO (a highly complex laxative) and TERA PIGRA (electuary laxative). Deruta, c. 1500–1530. J.W. Edwin vom Rath bequest, 1941.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
potapothecary jar
Credit lineAlbarello, veelkleurig beschilderd met een wapen met aan weerszijden de kop van een griffioen en een banderol met opschrift: JERA PIGRA. c. 1500 - c. 1530. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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