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Production: Unidentified Delft factory
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with a classical pastoral scene
Pale buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue. Octagonal with a wide rim and shallow well. The middle is decorated with a pastoral landscape. A shepherdess seated beside a tree on the left is being presented with a stem of flowers by a shepherd. Each has a staff with a cupped end for throwing stones. On the right there are four sheep, and another is behind the shepherd. On the rim, there are stylized plant motifs on the angles with crossed lozenges in the spaces between them. The reverse is undecorated.
History note: Mr Dickinson, Wigmore Street, London, from whom purchased in 1898 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Width: 20.3 cm
Width: 8 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Formerly identified as English, but probably made in Delft in the Netherlands
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
Accession number: C.1355-1928
Primary reference Number: 71860
Old object number: 692
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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