Keywords: Italian - "Albarello" with a Shepherdess Lifting Her Skirt - Walters 482234.jpg An albarello is a cylindrical jar that takes its shape from imported Islamic pottery It belongs to a larger group of wares with predominantly erotic motifs that have initial B or B° on the back The initial most likely refers to the workshop where the jars were made but it could refer a single patron who commissioned the group Sexual imagery is frequently found on Renaissance objects made for private use ca 1500 1520 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 20 7 accession number 48 2234 32876 Sir Edgar and Lady Speyer London Walters Art Museum 1961 by purchase Museum purchase 1961 Art and Love in Renaissance Italy Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth; The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 2008-2009 place of origin Faenza Italy Walters Art Museum license Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Upskirt in art Albarello 16th-century ceramics Faenza maiolica |