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Production: Unidentified Puente pottery
Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed cream, and painted in blue, green, yellow, ochre, and manganese. Circular with deep sides, and everted rim, standing on a low footring. The inside is decorated with a central medallion containing a stylized plant, surrounded by yellow and manganese-brown concentric circles, outside which are pairs of ochre curved strokes alternating with a parti-coloured green and yellow leaf. The upper part of the sides are decorated with bands of blue, yellow, ochre and manganese-purple. The exterior is decorated with a wide border of green pyramidal motifs with stylized birds (?) between them, with two manganese-brown bands above and below, and below that a yellow and an ochre band and two manganese-brown bands.
History note: Unknown before Lady St John Hope (1869-1952)
Bequeathed by Lady St John Hope
Height: 14.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1952-08-02) by St John Hope, Lady
18th Century, second half#
1750
CE
-
1800
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple)
Rim
Diameter 32.8 cm
except footrim; cream
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Accession number: C.11-1952
Primary reference Number: 71354
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 (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71354 Accessed: 2024-12-22 20:36:06
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