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Object Details
Title:
Drug Jar for Mithridate and Drug Jar for Theriac
Artist/Maker:
Attributed to Annibale Fontana (Italian, about 1540 - 1587)
Culture:
Italian
Place:
Milan (possibly), Northern Italy, Italy (Place Created)
Date:
about 1580
Medium:
Terracotta with white paint and gilt exterior and glazed interior
Object Number:
90.SC.42
Object Description
Designed as a pair, these elaborately modeled drug jars were made to contain mithridatum and theriac, used as antidotes to poisons, to ward off the plague, and as general cure-alls. They were among the most highly prized and complex drugs in the
Provenance
Provenance
-
Mario Tazzoli (London, England), sold to Siran Holding Corporation.
- 1990
Siran Holding Corporation (Geneva, Swizerland), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1990.
Bibliography
Bibliography
"Acquisitions/1990." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 19 (1991), p. 164, no. 57.