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Pottery: Pickleherring Pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware ewer, painted in blue with a circular cartouche, surrounded by ribbon, scrolling foliage and a swag.
Pale buff earthenware (little visible), tin-glazed overall except for the underside of the edge of the foot, and painted in blue. The ewer stands on a circular foot with a sloping rim and domed centre. The hemispherical lower part is separated from the upper part by a horizontal rib, below which are nine bosses. The upper part has six shallow lobes and flares outward slightly towards the rim, which is pinched at the front to form a pointed lip. The loop handle has a vertical depression and a stumpy kick at the lower end. The front is decorated with a circular cartouche with a loop of ribbon at the top, scrolling foliage on each side, and a swag at the bottom, enclosing the initials 'C/T H' over '1660'.
History note: Hext, Trenarren, St Austell, Cornwall; John Hext, Exeter; his widow, Jean M. Hext.
Bequeathed by Mrs Jean M. Hext
Height: 24.0 cm
Width: 19.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2001-04-30) by Hext, Jean M.
Mid 17th century
Charles II
Production date:
AD 1660
: dated 1660
Probably made at the Pickleherring pottery in Southwark
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( cobalt-blue)
Foot
Diameter 11.8 cm
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, thrown and manipulated, with applied vertically grooved handle, tin-glazed, and painted in blue; the edge of the foot has been wiped almost entirely free of glaze
Accession number: C.7-2001
Primary reference Number: 29488
Entry form number: 153
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Ewer" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/29488 Accessed: 2023-03-28 12:10:21
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Accession Number: OC.33 & A-1946
Accession Number: E.210.1954
Accession Number: C.738-2016
Accession Number: JL.33-1984
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