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Dish emblematic of Fecundity
Pottery:
Pickleherring Pottery
(Probably)
Proprietor of pottery:
Newnham, Richard
Tin-glazed and painted earthenware decorated in relief with a nude woman and five children emblematic of fecundity
Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and brownish-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. One of the circular depressions at top centre of the rim is nitialled and dated 'D/C M/1651 in blue.
History note: Purchased by Mortlock & Co, Oxford Street, London from an unknown vendor in 1893; purchased by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher from Mortlock & Co on 10 July 1907, for £75.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 6.1 cm
Width: 40.3 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
Mid 17th century
Production date:
AD 1651
: dated
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.
Dated English delftware Fecundity dishes range from 1633 to 1697.
The Pickleherring, Montague Close, and Rotherhithe potteries in Southwark were operating at the date of production, but it seems likely that this dish was made at Pickleherring
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, brownish-orange)
Whoel
Length 48.8 cm
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Press-moulding
: Earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and brownish-orange high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours; many pinholes in the glaze on the reverse
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1422-1928
Primary reference Number: 71979
Old object number: 2699
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 (2023) "Dish emblematic of Fecundity" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71979 Accessed: 2023-06-01 12:49:48
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Accession Number: C.1398-1928
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Accession Number: C.1410-1928
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