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Vase with three nozzles
Pottery:
Pickleherring Pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Montague Close Pottery
(Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with a wreath containing the initials 'C/N.V' over 1650 or 1656
Earthenware, thrown, with applied spouts and handles, tin-glazed, and painted in blue. The vase stands on a circular spreading foot with a short stem, and has a bulbous body, a short cylindrical neck and an everted wavy rim. Projecting upwards from the shoulder there are three tubular spouts alternating with three horn-like handles. One side is decorated with a wreath containing the initials 'C/N.V; over 1650'
History note: Colonel H.C. Norris, Swalcliffe Park, Banbury and Trinity Gardens, Folkestone; sold by Christie's, 4 May 1916, Old English Furniture, lot 104; purchased for £8.8.0. by Mr Stoner of London on Dr Glaisher's behalf
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 10.9 cm
Height: 12 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Mid#
Commonwealth
Circa
1650
CE
-
1656
CE
The vase was probably made at either Pickleherring or Montague Close pottery in Southwark. It is the earliest dated English delftware flower vase known.
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
Foot
Diameter 7.3 cm
Spouts
Visible Surfaces
buff
Earthenware
except base
Tin-glaze
Throwing : Earthenware, thrown, with applied tubular spouts, and rolled handles, tin-glazed and painted in blue; the underside is unglazed
Accession number: C.1314-1928
Primary reference Number: 71777
Old object number: 4085
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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