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Dish emblematic of Fecundity: C.1409-1928

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Dish emblematic of Fecundity

Maker(s)

Pottery: Unidentified Southwark Pottery

Entities

  • Dish
  • oval dish
  • La Fécondité dish

Categories

Description

Tin-glazed and painted earthenware decorated with a reclining nude woman and five children emblematic of fecundity

Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange. Oval, with wide rim, and curved well. The rim is moulded in relief with alternately oval and circular depressions, separated by human masks, and vases of fruit and foliage, and the well with a reclining nude woman and five nude children, one of whom holds a dog. Behind the woman there is a green curtain and further to the left part of a building

Notes

History note: Probably bought at Christie's by Mr Stoner, London, from whom purchased for £25 in July 1907 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 6.5 cm
Length: 50.5 cm
Width: 40.2 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Southwark ⪼ Surrey ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

17th Century, Mid#
Charles I
Circa 1635 CE - 1640 CE

Note

After a French lead-glazed earthenware dish, of a type traditionally attributed to Bernard Palissy (d. 1590), but probably made by his successors Jean Chipault (d. 1599) or Claude Berthémy at Avon near Fontainebleau.

The Pickleherring, and Montague Close potteries were operating when the earliest dated dish of this design was made, and by about 1636 the Rotherhithe pottery was also operating.

School or Style

Mannerist

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, and orange)
Front

Materials used in production

buff Earthenware
white Tin-glaze

Techniques used in production

Press-moulding : Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange high temperature colours; the glaze is uneven and lumpy on the reverse
Tin-glazing

References and bibliographic entries

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1409-1928
Primary reference Number: 71941
Old object number: 2700
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Friday 16 February 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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