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A Couple in a Garden with a potted Pineapple Plant
Pottery:
Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Printer:
John Sadler and Guy Green
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and transfer-printed in grey-black. An elegant couple in a garden with a pineapple plant; '88' border.
History note: Purchased in a court off Bishopsgate, London, on 4 April 1901 with C.1745-1928 for 2s. 6d. by Dr J.W.L. glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 0.6 cm
Height: 12.6 cm
Width: 12.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1765
CE
-
1775
CE
Label text from the exhibition ‘Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500–1800’, on display at The Fitzwilliam Museum from 26 November 2019 until 31 August 2020: This comparatively inexpensive tile attests to English pineapple mania: its cheap transfer- printed image (a novel technique introduced at Liverpool in 1756) shows a well-to-do courting couple strolling on an elegant parterre past a large terracotta pot containing a flourishing pineapple plant. This image is adapted from an illustration published in the popular women’s periodical, The Ladies Amusement, in 1762. For most wealthy gardeners, pineapple cultivation had become ‘the fashionable Test of good gardening’ to quote Adam Taylor in his gardening book of 1769. Liverpool, England, c.1765 –75 Tin-glazed earthenware and transfer-printed with reversed design from plate 32 of The Ladies Amusement (2nd edition, 1762; or 3rd edition, 1771)
Made in Liverpool and printed by J. Sadler and G. Green. The design was derived from pl. 32 of The Ladies Amusement, 2nd edition, 1762 or 3rd edition, 1771, but is reversed.
Decoration
composed of
ceramic printing colour
( grey-black)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1731-1928
Primary reference Number: 15440
Old object number: 1297
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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