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Dish: Leaves and Fruit
Pottery: unidentified London pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, turquoise-green, yellow and brownish-red with large leaves and fruit; border of blue and yellow bands and blue dashes
Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, turquoise-green, yellow, and brownish-red, the reverse coated with pale slip and yellow lead-glaze tinged with green in four areas. Circular with a sloping rim, and curved sides, standing on a footring. Painted in the middle with a large green leaf surrounded by two blue concentric circles, and four similar leaves, with circular fruits and dark blue serrated half leaves in the spaces beween them. Round the edge there are two blue concentric circles, and one broader yellow circle with blue dashes over it.
History note: Purchased before 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 30.7 cm
Height: 7.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Charles II
James II
William III and Mary II
William III (1750-1702)
Circa
1675
CE
-
1700
CE
The design has strong affinities with dishes from Montelupo in Tuscany which were imported into England in the mid 17th century (see C.2176-1928)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, turquoise-green, yellow and brownish-red)
Back
composed of
slip
( pale-coloured)
lead-glaze
( yellow, with green areas)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1611-1928
Primary reference Number: 72305
Old object number: 18
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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