Anyone know anything about Alborellos/albarellos - antique apothecary jars/ catholic heraldry?

[ehrnst]

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Found this at a thrift store.




Cremor indicates that it held cream of tartar.

I learned that it's an alborella/albarello, and the design on it is ecclesiastical heraldry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_heraldry

I can't find any information on who the heraldry belongs to - and can't locate any yellow galero heraldry at all.

I have only found one other example online of an albarello with such heraldry, and it's a different type of clay.

https://www.rubylane.com/item/61838-1078532x20TR-00229/An-18th-century-Mex78ican-Colonial-Talavera

Anyone here familiar with this type of pottery?

[ehrnst]

1. Closest thing I've found to it online

https://www.todocoleccion.net/antiguedades/bonito-albarelo-farmacia-ceramica-talavera-firmado-mave-descripcion-hoj-digital-19-cm-alto~x43773444#sobre_el_lote

[Vinca]

2. I don't know anything about it, but it's got the kind of look that makes me think

you need an expert in Talavera pottery. There's a somewhat similar one for sale on ebay for $900. Great find!

[ehrnst]

3. I live in the DC area, and there is a thrift shop that supports hospice near me

Often the families donate items that were the hospice patients' to the store.

Found a piece of Sasha Brastoff pottery there for a couple bucks that I sold for $300 on Ebay.

Found a mid-century "mushroom" lamp for $10 and sold it on Craigslist for $250.

This is unlike anything I've seen, tho.

[Vinca]

4. Wow - you're lucky. We also have a hospice thrift store, but the foxes are kind of

guarding the hen house (antique dealers "volunteering" and getting first dibs). Every so often I find something, but you have to know about the most obscure potters, painters, etc. Every so often they mistake a watercolor for a print and that's how I made my best find there - a lovely watercolor by a Scottish artist that I liked so much I had some minor restoration work done and had it put in a period frame. It's hanging in my living room. Although I'm a dealer, I always consider my best finds the ones I want to keep. Let me know what you find out on your pottery.

[Sylvere]

5. The insignia is Carmelite Order

[ehrnst]

6. Thank you!!! (nt)