15929842950001312637261000Standard Recordobject-71979170810661512716871655470001708106603488fitz-onlineadlib-object-71979https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71979943c7c01-f6e9-3e13-9916-b79231cf1ae88personreferenceagent-149742adlib-agent-1497421d4d164f-45d5-3cec-ad71-bbc83cea9b86womanpersonreferenceagent-149722adlib-agent-1497221045c413-1fce-39ca-8037-41d6e50650b0childrenreferenceterm-108348adlib-term-108348667e7a19-db33-3d85-bd9b-c2dafd8e02fftin-glazed earthenwarereferenceterm-110399adlib-term-110399c2c214aa-c7b2-3bbe-8460-214ed187b114English delftwarereferenceterm-113184adlib-term-11318425fc548d-d02f-39a6-a34f-d609393a0043J. W. L. Glaisherblue, green, yellow, brownish-orangereferenceterm-108364adlib-term-108364115b8729-a560-35c1-b654-4b9d2fc5f68bhigh-temperature coloursDecorationin blue, green, yellow, and brownish-orangereferenceterm-106226adlib-term-106226194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815paintingLengthcm48.8Whoelreferenceterm-102639adlib-term-1026392c240716-c1bb-36c4-9594-b0a98f1208c2allegoryApplied Artstin-glazed and painted earthenware decorated in relief with a nude woman and five children emblematic of fecundityBuff 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.D 18referenceexhibition-1705adlib-exhibition-17058abde507-6c7b-3bf8-8526-89fa7dc7c0cdExhibition of Early English Earthenware1referenceexhibition-1706adlib-exhibition-1706078864c3-c1c6-3462-8281-af761d2fcabaEnglish Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collectionreferenceexhibition-2245adlib-exhibition-2245ee8f8fe2-cf44-3d47-9813-d04afa62a01cPhilip Eglin and English Folk CeramicsC.1422-19281accession numberC.1422-192871979priref71979old object number2699urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71979https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71979on frontpaintedD/C M/1651inscriptionreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumDr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequestreferenceagent-152564adlib-agent-152564c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr192819281928-12-07bequeathedthe Glaisher ceramic collection was entered in the accession register as one item with the date of Dr Glaisher’s death1651CE1651dated1651probablypotteryreferenceagent-160592adlib-agent-1605924797b8ea-9c01-303d-80b7-deaa2d37d33aPickleherring Potteryproprietor of potteryreferenceagent-189033adlib-agent-1890336131769f-0de0-37f5-bb38-f6fa5d65ca32Newnham, RichardThis dish is one of about forty-three dishes dated between 1633 and 1697 which are decorated in relief with a scene emblematic of Fecundity, showing a nude woman reclining on pillows on a mattress with five nude children to her left. The design was copied from a French lead-glazed earthenware dish, traditionally attributed to Bernard Palissy (c/ 1510- 1590), but probably made by one of his followers in Paris, Fontainebleau, or Rouen A French merchant, Claude Beaulat, living in London, seems to have specialized in importing ceramics from France, could have been the channel through which dishes of this design reached London. (See Documentation, Britton, and Denis-Dupuis)
The Pickleherring, Montague Close, and Rotherhithe potteries in Southwark were operating in 1651 when this dish was made, but it seems likely that it was made at Pickleherring. The sailing ship in the circular depressions, links the dish to seven others with ship motifs in their borders. One of these, at Colonial Williamsburg (inv. 19698-123) is decorated with the arms of the Broderers' Company and the initials N/RE and date 1661, probably for Richard and Elizabeth Newnham. Richard was the proprietor of the Pickleherring pottery, Southwark from 1647 until his death in 1684, and there is therefore a strong likelihood that this group of Fecundity dishes was made there. See also C.1410-1928.referenceterm-113347adlib-term-113347b3865e14-c2dc-3722-935d-b7697edeab4e17th Century, Mid#referenceterm-22454adlib-term-224546083cc21-8ac0-39a2-98bc-1d93c3435b5dCommonwealthreferenceterm-109817adlib-term-109817ebc71b47-d90d-30dc-9cc7-b31686b68783literalEnglandEnglandcountryliteralSurreySurreyregionSouthwarkbuffreferenceterm-42861adlib-term-428615b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956cearthenwarereferenceterm-39575adlib-term-39575cdf6707a-1eeb-3622-a26b-6e54f1f8d4abtin-glazeHeightcm6.1Widthcm40.3referencemedia-169681adlib-media-1696819fed0d91-1edf-35b0-828e-2f35f5155697jpegaa/aa27/C_1422_1928.jpg1heightpixels544widthpixels76016162695575751imagejpegaa/aa27/mid_C_1422_1928.jpg1heightpixels358widthpixels50016162695575751imagejpegaa/aa27/C_1422_1928.jpg1heightpixels544widthpixels76016162695575751imagejpegaa/aa27/preview_C_1422_1928.jpg1heightpixels179widthpixels25016162695575751image0media
imagereferenceterm-90855adlib-term-90855b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dacdishoval dishLa Fécondité dishhistory notePurchased 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 £75.1same subjectreferenceobject-71917adlib-object-71917fb42ccef-ccef-3e39-9576-734a24c0f5ca1reference1term-113348adlib-term-1133486b27cf61-1819-3634-91ab-640f46a8cde7dish centredish centre1same subjectreferenceobject-71941adlib-object-71941ed843356-b088-3aa9-866b-35525b955b061reference1term-90855adlib-term-90855b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dacdishdish1same subjectreferenceobject-71942adlib-object-71942d157e803-ae4b-38db-885c-66e92073f1371reference1term-90855adlib-term-90855b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dacdishdish1referenceobject-71941adlib-object-71941ed843356-b088-3aa9-866b-35525b955b061reference1term-90855adlib-term-90855b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dacdishdishreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumPubl. p. 64, D 18. Attributed to Lambeth64referencepublication-3437adlib-publication-3437fe89a783-5ed8-312f-a4de-73106268a772Illustrated Catalogue of Early English EarthenwarePubl. Vol. I, p. 181, no. 1422. Attributed to Lambeth181referencepublication-1031adlib-publication-1031a5cc6cb3-2b6f-390a-af51-7e9d123e55edCatalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum CambridgePubl. p. 1, no. 1. Attributed to Southwark1referencepublication-3433adlib-publication-343316800edf-2013-3a93-9c14-0133132d1256English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher CollectionPubl. pp. 20-1, no. 520-1referencepublication-1030adlib-publication-10309cf77d50-a614-3947-8d0e-919f695fe7b0Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Potteryreferencepublication-7519adlib-publication-751966216bb6-1f3a-3a73-a29c-2d840342ae63Delftware in the Fitzwilliam MuseumRef. esp. pp. 171-5169-76referencepublication-200002903adlib-publication-2000029036fff4111-558e-3dbd-ae2c-4a564cd88021Bernard Palissy and London delftwareRef. pp. 63-71, for a revision of earlier views on the location of Palissy's followers at Fontainebleau, to include Saint-Germaine des Prés in Paris, and Rouen. The author confirms Frank Britton's finding of a French merchant Claude Beaulat in London, who traded in ceramics, and whose wife, Anne Berthélémy could have been a daughter or other relative of the potter Jean Berthélémy in Rouen.63-71referencepublication-200003221adlib-publication-200003221a02f7883-d087-34f5-bde0-eeda20670791Sur les traces des producteurs de céramiques à glaçure plombifère et à décor moulé des règnes de Henri IV et de Louis XIIIRef. For further dated and undated examples. C.1422-1928 is listed on p. 6347-64referencepublication-200001175adlib-publication-200001175e25e1c97-248e-3cad-8b08-560de86ebc45English Delftware Copies of La Fécondité pattern Dishes attributed to Palissyreferencepublication-200002315adlib-publication-200002315a3381e15-7948-3077-a065-003750e45f3aLondon's Delftware Industry, The tin-glazed pottery industries of Southwark and LambethCf. Lot 1501 an example painted only in blue, undated, c. 164010referencepublication-3485adlib-publication-348569928331-0357-31b6-8a5a-544e2466bd99Important English Furniture, Ceramics and Decorations including property from the Estate of Katharine Grahamreferenceterm-10604adlib-term-106041e7fbf60-43c9-3c5a-852a-c014514e9f77Manneristconceptreferenceterm-132377adlib-term-1323774a11db00-7cac-3092-a4bd-22f05d0f8bf0fecundityobject namereferenceterm-96498adlib-term-96498e91b902a-807e-3082-af68-893d77b21a87sailing shipanimalreferenceterm-81073adlib-term-81073afcd0aec-cc0b-385e-8b79-3c42b02cf3e8dogplantreferenceterm-31204adlib-term-31204aa63784d-f3d4-3e1f-b9a3-f46ab9819359leaf (plant material)literalfecundityfecundityliteralsailing shipsailing shipliteraldogdogliteralleaf (plant material)leaf (plant material)referenceterm-90855adlib-term-90855b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dacdishdishearthenware, 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 reversereferenceterm-120085adlib-term-12008568c62b7c-aaf4-38a5-a1be-4d6c615c0714press-mouldingreferenceterm-120059adlib-term-120059dfa315b5-819d-37ab-ab22-bddfdbb3cbe7tin-glazingDish emblematic of Fecundityobject
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