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    "localId": "123274",
    "label": "Pharmacy Bottle",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

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    "id": "123274",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Pharmacy Bottle",
    "description": "Pharmacy bottles that lined the shelves of Renaissance pharmacies often held medicinal herbs, spices, and ointments. The inscription on this bottle reads CAPILLV, which was a liquid extracted from a fern-like plant commonly referred to as “maiden’s hair water.”",
    "date": "c. 1500–1510",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.52.2",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60745875"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
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    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.52.2/1943.52.2_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, Papal States, Faenza"
    ],
    "accession": "1943.52.2"
}

{
    "tec": "tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)",
    "tombstone": "Pharmacy Bottle, c. 1500–1510. Italy, Papal States, Faenza. Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica); overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1943.52.2",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "written in lower ribbon band: A. CAPILLV."
        }
    ],
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "1943.53"
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "The peacock feather design lining the bottom of this bottle was especially popular in Faenza, near Bologna, during the Renaissance.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William M. \"Italian Majolica.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 1 (January 1944): 7-15.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 10, Reproduced: pp. 13-14",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25141102"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cole, Bruce. <em>Italian Maiolica from Midwestern Collections. </em>Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum, 1977.<br>Published as <em>Drug Bottle.</em>",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 36, cat. no. 11; Reproduced: p. 37",
            "url": "http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=4542199"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 39, no. 41"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.52.2",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:20:33.581000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.52.2/1943.52.2_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 123274,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Decorative Arts",
    "med": "tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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