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Maker: uncertain (Style of)
Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. The body colour is visible where the glaze is thinly applied. Painted in blue and light and dark slightly lustrous yellow.
Hemispherical body with pronounced shoulder, flaring neck and two strap handles, standing on a short stem separated by a knop from the circular spreading foot.
On the lower part there are pseudo-gadroons, with a horizontal border of stylised buds and tendrils above. Both sides of the neck are decorated with a rectangular panel containing a stylised plant, flanked by vertical borders of stylised buds and tendrils between vertical lines. A similar border encircles the foot. The edges of the foot, the stem, the rim, and the handles are yellow.
History note: Lucy Joan Scott-Ellis (1808-99), Countess Howard de Walden; Thomas Sutton, Eastbourne, from whom purchased in February 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 19.6 cm
Height: 17.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
16th Century
19th Century
Circa
1500
CE
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1550
CE
Circa
1850
CE
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1875
CE
The vase is almost certainly a product of the Renaissance revival, perhaps purchased by the Countess Howard de Walden in Rome, where Dr Glaisher was told she had acquired maiolica in the mid nineteenth century. Its shape differs from polychrome and lustred examples made in Deruta c. 1500-50.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue) reduced pigment lustre ( silver-yellow, appearing dark, slightly lustrous yellow)
Tin-glazing : Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. The body colour is visible where the glaze is thinly applied. Painted in blue and light and dark slightly lustrous yellow.
Accession number: C.2282-1928
Primary reference Number: 48553
Old object number: 1114
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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