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Pottery: Brislington Pottery (Probably)
Earthenware, tin-glazed duck-egg blue and painted in blue, manganese-purple and yellow
Dark buff earthenware, tin-glazed duck-egg blue, and painted in cobalt-blue and manganese-purple, with a little yellow; the reverse, covered with greenish lead-glaze. Circular with curved sides and slightly everted rim, standing on a footring. On the front are a cat, an owl and a monkey wearing top-knots and tippets, the last holding a mirror. Above is the title of a ballad: ` The Alo¬mode or ye Maidens Mode Admir'd & Cont¬inue'd By ye Ape Owl & Mistris Puss', and the date, 1688. Below are the verses of the ballad. The lower part of the design is painted with triangles to resemble a tiled floor. The edge is encircled by a narrow manganese-purple line and blue dashes. On the back, in a square, is a cross imposed over a fainter St Andrew cross.
History note: Sir Ashton Lever's Museum Leverianum, Leicester House, London, probably 1774-88; James Parkinson, exhibited at the Rotunda, south end of Blackfriars Bridge, London, until 1806; sold by King and Lochee, Catalogue of the Leverian Museum, May 5 1806 and following 65 days, on the eleventh day of the sale, Friday, 15 May, lot 1204 for 18s.0d.; sold to Dent. By c. 1910, Francis Bennett Goldney, M.P. for Canterbury (d. 1918); sold Puttick & Simpson, London, 4 March 1920, Decorative porcelain, pottery, silver plate, antique furniture and other works of art, lot 145; purchased for £325.10.0 by the dealer, Frank Stoner for Dr Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 39 cm
Height: 8.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
James II
Production date:
dated
AD 1688
A copy of the ballad is in the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.
Formerly attributed to London, but probably made at Brislington, near Bristol. The animals and verses were copied from an undated broadsheet ballad, 'The Alomode Dress, or the Maidens Mode Admir'd and Continued by the Ape, Owl and Mistris Puss' of which an example is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington DC. The painter changed the face of the cat, which is female in the ballad, to a leonine more masculine face, and missed out two very small animals in the background. The animals are wearing headdresses made of pleated ribbons with lace cornets hanging down on either side of their faces, and the owl and ape have short capes called night vailes round their shoulders. The writer of the verses asked if women wanted to go on wearing top knots now that they were being worn by animals like these. At the time cat was slang for a prostitute, owls were considered foolish, and apes vain and undiscriminating.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue, manganese-purple, and a little yellow)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
( duck-egg blue)
Back
composed of
lead-glaze
Inscription present: in a square, a cross imposed over a fainter St Andrew cross
Accession number: C.1443-1928
Primary reference Number: 72012
Old object number: 4774
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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