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Dish: C.1497-1928

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Current Location: In storage

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Pottery: unidentified London pottery

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Description

Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, dark yellow, and manganese purple with tulips and carnations growing from a mound; blue dash border

Eathenware, the front tin-glazed creamy-white, and painted in blue, pale green, yellow, dark yellow, and manganese-purple; the reverse, covered with very slightly greenish lead-glaze containing tin which forms radiating streaks. Circular, with deep curved sides standing on a wide shallow footring. The front is decorated with tulips, carnations, and fritillaries on branching stems of foliage springing from a low mound; on the edge there is a yellow band, two narrow blue bands, and closely-set blue dashes.

Notes

History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 41.5 cm
Diameter: 16 5/16 in
Height: 9 cm
Height: 3½ in

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

17th Century, Late
Charles II
Circa 1660 CE - 1680 CE

School or Style

Baroque

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, dark yellow, and manganese-purple)
Back composed of lead-glaze ( greenish, with streaks of pinkish-white tin-glaze and blue spots)
Front composed of tin-glaze ( white)

Materials used in production

buff Earthenware

References and bibliographic entries

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1497-1928
Primary reference Number: 72091
Old object number: R 1043

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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