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Production: Norfolk House (Possibly)
Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed dark blue, and painted in white
Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed dark blue, and painted in white. Oval with convex sides, and a wide out-turned rim, supported on three hollow bun feet, each pierced by a hole . At each end there is a moulded lion’s mask holding an upturned ring in its mouth. The inside is painted with a Chinese figure seated in a landscape and with alternating wavy lines and small circles round the rim. The exterior is decorated on each side with a Chinese figure seated in a landscape and with a lower border of alternating small circles and wavy lines, and above a band of groups of grasses.
History note: Purchased in London about 1897 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 14 cm
Length: 25.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Charles II
James II
William III and Mary II
Circa
1680
CE
-
1695
CE
Sherds of blue delftware have been found on the site of the Norfolk House pottery in Lambeth, but it may also have been made elsewhere in London, and at Brislington, near Bristol. The Oriental design, featuring a chinaman in a landscape with brush-like tree and shrubs, was probably derived from Chinese Transitional style porcelain or Japanese imitations of it.
This form imitates the massive silver cisterns used to cool wine bottles in cold water or ice.
Decoration composed of enamel ( white)
dark blue
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, with applied handles and feet, tin-glazed dark blue, and painted in white.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1386-1928
Primary reference Number: 71902
Old object number: 1276
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) "Cistern" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71902 Accessed: 2024-11-04 18:14:36
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