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    "localId": "123295",
    "label": "Two-Handled \"Oak Leaf\" Drug Jar with Male and Female Portraits",
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    "id": "123295",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Two-Handled \"Oak Leaf\" Drug Jar with Male and Female Portraits",
    "description": "This two-handled drug container with a bulbous body and short neck belongs to a group of wares known as \"oak leaf jars\" because of their decoration. This example includes two profile busts amid blue-on-white oak leaves on branching stems. On each handle is a crutch, painted in green and manganese. This was the badge of the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence. The star motif below the crutch is the workshop mark of the ceramist Giunta di Tugio, known to have received this commission in the year 1431. In the early Middle Ages hospitals were simple hospices set up outside cities to offer food and lodging to pilgrims and travelers. The Santa Maria Nuova hospital, by the mid-1300s the largest in Florence, was the first hospital in that city dedicated primarily to caring for the sick.",
    "date": "1431",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.54",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60780977"
    ],
    "creators": [
        9817
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.54/1943.54_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.54/1943.54_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, Florence, 15th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1943.54"
}

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    "tec": "tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)",
    "tombstone": "Two-Handled \"Oak Leaf\" Drug Jar with Male and Female Portraits , 1431. Workshop of Giunta di Tugio (Italian, c. 1382–1450). Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica); overall: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1943.54",
    "collection": "MED - Renaissance",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William. \"Italian Majolica.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>31, no. 1 (January 1944): 7-15.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 9; Reproduced: p. 13",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141102"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 216",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n49"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 78",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n102"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 78",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n102"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 89",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n109"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. T<em>he World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 38, fig. 40"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Carter, Ben. The Complete Guide to Low-Fire Glazes for Potters and Sculptors : Techniques, Recipes, and Inspiration for Low-Temperature Firing with Big Results. Beverly, MA, USA: Quarry, 2024.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 53"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.54",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:20:37.762000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.54/1943.54_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 123295,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Renaissance",
    "med": "tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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