Delftware or French holy water stoup

An image of Holy water stoup. Unidentified Delft factory, Netherlands, or Unidentified French factory. The water receptacle is in the form of a half bowl with lightly gadrooned sides, and everted rim, attached to the lower part of the flat back. The back is moulded in relief on the front with the initials IHS below a Cross on an oval panel suported by cherubs terminating in feathers. Above the panel is a suspension hole, and above that a winged cherub's head. The edges of the bowl, and the relief areas of the bowl and back are outlined and filled in with blue. The cherubs have painted crucifixes suspended round their necks, and there is another below the panel. Pale buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, height, whole, 19 cm, width, whole, 11 cm, depth, bowl, 7 cm, 18th century. Baroque.

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Holy water stoup. Unidentified Delft factory, Netherlands, or Unidentified French factory. The water receptacle is in the form of a half bowl with lightly gadrooned sides, and everted rim, attached to the lower part of the flat back. The back is moulded in relief on the front with the initials IHS below a Cross on an oval panel suported by cherubs terminating in feathers. Above the panel is a suspension hole, and above that a winged cherub's head. The edges of the bowl, and the relief areas of the bowl and back are outlined and filled in with blue. The cherubs have painted crucifixes suspended round their necks, and there is another below the panel. Pale buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, height, whole, 19 cm, width, whole, 11 cm, depth, bowl, 7 cm, 18th century. Baroque.

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Accession Number: C.2527-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 760 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 465.10kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2014:02:25 12:31:26

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18th Century Baroque blue blue and white Catholic Catholicism cherubs crucifix crucifixion Delftware Dutch earthenware feathers Fitz_AA French gadrooned gadroons glazed holy water stoup initial initials monogram mould made moulded pottery putti putto religion religious sacred monogram stoup tin-glazed water stoup

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