English Delftware hand warmer in the shape of a book

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English Delftware. Hand Warmer in the Shape of a Book. Unidentified London pottery, or possibly Brislington Pottery. White earthenware, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise-green, yellow and ochre. Formed as a book with two false clasps, the hand warmer has two compartments linked by a hole, and having a large approximately rectangular aperture in the top near the spine, and a small hole in the back top left corner. Both sides are painted with the initials and date 'EM/1663' within an oval loopy frame, and have a fleur-de-lys in each corner. The spine is painted with four horizontal stripes alternating with dotted flowerheads, and the fore-edge is painted in turquoise with slightly darker stripes to indicate the pages. Height, whole, 11.3 cm, width, whole, 7.9 cm, depth, whole, 4 cm, dated 1663.

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Accession Number: C.1428-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 740 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 219.90kB
Exposure time: 1/90
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2009:07:27 17:38:50

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17th Century Artist/Maker Date Delftware Department English English Delftware Fitz_AA Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Predominant Colours Restoration Stewart Period Stuart Period Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd blue books dated earthenware fleur-de-lis fleur-de-lys glazed hand warmer initial ochre painted pottery tin-glazed

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