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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in lustre over a glaze coloured with blue, metal lid and collar
Fritware, moulded, painted in lustre on a white glaze coloured with blue topped with a copper alloy lid
Shape: pear-shaped bottle on a low foot ring with an elongated cylindrical neck and lid that joined by a chain (now broken).
Exterior: on the neck floral sprays above a frieze of triangles. On the body peacocks are painted within a landscape of cypress trees and floral spays, a rectangle with attached curving lines may represent a stylised river. A concentric band is painted on the foot; the underside of the base is covered with glaze which is white, unlike the blue colouration on the body. Scar marks on the base indicate the use of a tripod stacking device in the kiln.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 25.5 cm
Weight: 674 g
Width: 13.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
17th Century#
Circa
1600
-
1699
Exterior
composed of
oxide colours
( lustre)
Collar And Lid
composed of
copper alloy
Rim
Diameter 2.6 cm
Base
Diameter 8.3 cm
coloured with blue or white
Glaze
Fritware
Moulding
: Fritware, moulded, painted in lustre on a white glaze coloured with blue topped with a copper alloy lid
Glazing
Inscription present: Rectangular paper label with serrated edge around all but left hand edge
Inscription present: painted directly onto vessel surface
Accession number: C.140-1935
Primary reference Number: 71933
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.153
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) "Bottle" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71933 Accessed: 2024-04-19 09:34:32
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