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albarello|ælbəˈrɛləʊ|
Also alberello.
[It. alberello pot, phial, app. dim. of albero, albaro (silver) poplar, f. late L. albarus white poplar, f. L. albus white.]
A Majolica jar used esp. as a container for drugs.
1873C. D. E. Fortnum Maiolica p. lxxv, The albarello.., or drug pot, universally known under that name, is made of different sizes and always of one piece. 1893Funk's Stand. Dict., Alberello. 1904H. Wallis (title) Italian Ceramic Art: The Albarello, a Study in early Renaissance Maiolica. 1925B. Rackham in R. Fry et al. Chinese Art 17 The jar is no less pleasing. In shape it approaches the albarello of the Near East and Italy. 1950Ashmolean Mus. Dutch & Flemish Still-life Pictures 173 A blue pottery albarello with foliage. 1959G. Savage Antique Coll. Handbk. 71 It was also fashionable for pharmacies to be gaily decorated with painted drug-jars, the most popular being the tall, waisted jar known as the albarello, which was originally derived from Persia, by way of Moorish Spain. |