Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Production:
Unidentified French potter
Entities
Categories
Description
Earthenware, decorated with coloured glazes
Earthenware, moulded, with applied moulded decoration, and coloured lead-glazes. Oval with a deep centre on which are arranged a viper, lizard, oak- and vine-leaves, fronds of spleenwort, and shells in relief, coloured blue, green, and manganese-purple; the ground, and the back of the dish mottled with blue and purple
Notes
History note: Sir Andrew Fountaine Collection; sold, Christie's, 16-19 June 1884, Catalogue of the celebrated Fountaine collec¬tion of majolika, Henry II ware, Palissy ware, Nevers ware, Limoges enamels . . ., removed from Narford Hall, Norfolk, 2nd day, 17 June1884, lot 253; bought by Wareham for 116 guineas; Rev. Thomas Staniforth (1807-87); sold Christie's, 2 May 1889, Staniforth Collection, lot ?; bought by Durlacher for 52 guineas; sold to Charles Ricketts by whom sent to the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Sydney Cockerell in 1917; seen by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS, on 23 February 1917 and taken to his rooms at Trinity College; purchased from Charles Ricketts for £60 on 9 March 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Length: 33 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
School or Style
Palissy style
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
lead-glaze
( presumed lead-glaze, coloured blue, green and manganese-purple)
Materials used in production
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Moulding
: Earthenware, moulded, with applied moulded details, decorated with glazes coloued blue, green, and manganese-purple
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.1809-1928
Primary reference Number: 72671
Old object number: 5021
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 29 April 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
