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Stove tile. Light buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue, green, yellow and manganese. Oval, with baroque frame moulded with scrolls; on the back, an oval depression in the centre. Below a coronet, flanked by banners is a shield, bearing the arms of Ulm zu Erbach, of Wurttemberg and Baden: Quarterly: 1,4, per fesse azure and gules over all a fesse, i, azure a lion rampant gules and ii, checky argent and azure (Marbach); 3, quarterly or and vert (Ellerbach); over all, the Imperial double headed eagle crowned sable, bearing on its breast an escutcheon: gules a fesse argent with the three Roman capitals FMR or, in pale, one above the other over all. Above the arms is the inscription 'Saul Mathias Frey und/Edler Hr: von Ulm uff Er=/=bach und Marbach-/Rath.' in manganese Gothic script. The frame is decorated with all four colours.
History note: Rosenheim Collection. Sold Sotheby's, 4th May, 1924, Lot 191
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 24.0 cm
Width: 21.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Mid#
Circa
1630
CE
-
1660
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow and manganese)
Glaze
composed of
tin-glaze
Moulding : Moulded, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue, green, yellow and manganese
Accession number: C.2962-1928
Primary reference Number: 15903
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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