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Dish with shells and foliage, a snake, two frogs and two lizards
Pottery: Pickleherring Pottery (Probably)
Earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and brown in imitation of a Palissy style 'rustic' dish.
Buff earthenware, press-moulded, with applied relief motifs tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and brown. Oval, with narrow rim, and curved sides, decorated in relief with plants, snail shells, two frogs, two lizards and a snake in the middle. On the reverse, painted in blue, the initials and date I/E : A/1638, with an elaborate loopy flourish below.
History note: An unidentified owner, described as 'local' from whom purchased for £18 by Mr H. Ernest Hyde, 48 Warstone Lane, Birmingham. Glaisher saw the dish for the first time when he visited Hyde in Birmingham on 7 April 1924. Hyde sold his collection to the dealer, Mr Stoner, of London. Stoner sold the dish to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher 16 April 1926 for £400.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 7.8 cm
Length: 45.1 cm
Width: 36 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Second quarter of 17th century
Charles I
Production date:
dated
AD 1638
: dated
An imitation of a ‘rustic’ lead-glazed earthenware dish by the French potter, Bernard Palissy (d.1590) or his followers, Jean Chipault (d. 1599) and Claude Barthélemy (d. 1626) at Avon near Fontainebleau. The latter’s assistant, Claude Beaulat, became a merchant in London, which could account for the presence of ‘rustic’ dishes there to copy. The initials on this one may have been those of Edward Ireland and Ann Avers who married at St Margaret’s, West¬minster, on 17 January 1638.
The dish was probably made at the Pickleherring pottery but potteries at Montague Close, and Rotherhithe were operating in Southwark at the date of manufacture. Two more examples are known, one in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, and one formerly in the Longridge Collection.
The shape and decoration of the dish were inspired by a lead-glazed dish of the 'rustic' type attributed to Bernard Palissy (1510-90), or a close follower at Fontainebleau.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, and brown)
off-white
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, with applied relief motifs, tin-glazed off-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and brown
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: followed by an elaborate loopy flourish
Accession number: C.1399-1928
Primary reference Number: 71918
Old object number: 4912
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: PD.40-1975
Accession Number: C.3-1990
Accession Number: M.18-1980
Accession Number: C.2207-1928
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