IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72671 accession number: C.1809-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 20 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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 object type: earthenware, decorated with coloured glazes title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72671 PEOPLE ------------------- Fountaine, Andrew IV SUBJECTS ------------------- viper lizard viper lizard TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, moulded, with applied moulded details, decorated with glazes coloued blue, green, and manganese-purple moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: 'Palissy ware' DATING ------ culture: 16th Century, Late-17th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified French potter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 33 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Bernard Palissy in search of Earthly Paradise Sur les traces des producteurs de céramiques à glaçure plombifère et à décor moulé des règnes de Henri IV et de Louis XIII L'identification des moulages des coquilles fossiles et des organismes actuels des rustiques figulines: un apport naturaliste à la caractérisation des ateliers successifs de Palissy et de ses émules Un céramiste de légende: Palissy à Sèvres --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1809_1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_1809_1928.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1809_1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_1809_1928.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels