Current Location: In storage
Titles
Dish: a tazza filled with fruit
Maker(s)
Production:
unidentified London pottery
(Probably)
Entities
Categories
Description
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow and orange
Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, pale green, yellow and orange; the reverse possibly coated wth pale slip and lead-glazed yellowish-brown with radiating streaks of darker brown. Circular wth deep sides, standing on a footring (Archer's Shape A). The middle is decorated with a tazza filled with a pomegranate, grapes and other fruit, with the date 1674 written with two digits on either side of the stem. Below the rim there is a border of alternating yellow and orange leaves and blue rosettes, and on the edge, a yellow line and blue dashes.
Notes
History note: Unidentified owner at Ampthill from whom bought by Mr Roe of Cambridge (according to his son) , who sold it for £5 on 10 February 1904 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, pale green, yellow, and orange)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
( front)
Reverse
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellowish-brown)
Back
Materials used in production
buff
Earthenware
Inscription or legends present
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.1432-1928
Primary reference Number: 71995
Old object number: 2010
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 25 March 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
