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Historical Origins
The “Albarello” is a kind of pharmaceutical ceramics which had a remarkable diffusion and continuousness. It seems to derive from the Hispano-Moresque ceramics and also the name from the Arab “Al Baroni” or “Al Baril”.
In the Italian production it has a successive evolutions in the shape and in the decoration. The names of the medicinal herbs were placed on rectangular scroll ornaments in the centre of the Albarello or transversal, the decoration was framed with a wreath of leaves and fruit tied with fluttering ribbons.