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Pottery: unidentified London pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow and orange with leaves and fruit
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front and painted in blue, green, yellow and orange; the reverse possibly slip-coated, and then covered with a green lead-glaze with radiating dribbles. Circular with deep curved sides and slightly everted rim, standing on a footring. In the middle there is a circular medallion framed by a narrow blue line flanked by wider yellow lines enclosed large split leaf, painted half in blue, and half in yellow with orange veins, surrounded by four striped blue fruits and four striped orange fruits and leaves. Round the medallion there is a wide border of four similarly coloured leaves split by panels of trellis diaper. In the spaces between the outer edges of the leaves there are either two striped blue and one striped orange fruits or two orange and one blue. The edge is encircled by a yellow line and blue dashes. In the middle there are three spur marks.
History note: Unidentified private owner; bought by Mr Hardiman of Cambridge, from whom purchased in 1923 for £4 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 34.6 cm
Height: 6.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Charles II
Circa
1660
CE
-
1680
CE
This design is related to the leaf designs on large maiolica dishes from Montelupo in Tuscany which were imported into England and of which fragments have been found on sites in London and elsewhere.
Back
composed of
lead-glaze
( green)
slip
( pale buff possibly applied before glazing)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Decoration
buff Earthenware
Press-moulding : Buff earthenware, press-moulded, the reverse, possibly slip-coated in a pale slip before application of green lead-glaze which has radiating dribbles, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours
Accession number: C.1403-1928
Primary reference Number: 71935
Old object number: 4244
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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