Albarello (pharmacy jar)
The Albarello (plural: Albarelli) is a faience pharmacy jar in the shape of an upright cylinder with a slightly concave wall. It has a notched neck ring so that its opening z. B. can be tied with parchment. Its name is derived from the Italian "tree", since in the Middle Ages imported spices and drugs from the Orient came to Europe packed in bamboo trunk sections. As a faience vessel, this type of shape migrated from Persia to Moorish Spain, from where the pharmacy vessels produced there were exported to Italy. They have also been made there in all majolica centers since the 16th century, and a little later in France and Holland as well. Along with other forms of pharmacy jars, this type persisted throughout Europe until the 18th century.
literature
- Henry Wallis : The Albarello. A study in early renaissance maiolica (Italian Ceramic Art) . Quaritch, London 1904.
- Joseph Anton Häfliger: Pharmaceutical Antiquities and the Swiss Collection for Historical Pharmacy at the University of Basel . "Zur alten Universität" book printing company, Zurich 1931.
- Rudolf E. Drey: Apothecary Jars. Pharmaceutical pottery and porcelain in Europe and the East 1150-1850 . Faber & Faber, London 1978.
- Apothecary jars. A History of Pharmaceutical Ceramics . Callwey, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7667-0533-4 .