Ell di Sebesten

ca 1500

This blue monochrome albarello is decorated with cobalt blue vines and leaves. The escroll in the center of the container is marked in gothic script that reads <i>Ell di Sebesten.</i> Albarelli with wide mouths held dry bulk materia medica. Inscriptions of the jar's contents begin to appear about 1450. This jar would have contained Sebestena, the sweet plum fruit from the <i>Cordia myxa</i> tree that was used to soothe the throat.