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The Annunciation
Pottery: Unknown
Earthenware, incised, and decorated with slip under lead-glaze: the Annuncation surrounded by a border of a hunting scene
Orange-red earthenware, the upper surface painted in white slip with details incised through it, and touched in places with green and manganese-purple pigment under a clear lead-glaze. Circular with a wide rim and deep curved well. In the middle within two sets of narrow concentric circles, the Annunciation is taking place under a canopy supported by baluster columns, with the initials CM/15 to the left of Gabriel, and SM/90 to the right of the Virgin. Round the rim, is a continuous hunting scene with huntsmen on horseback and on foot, hounds, deer, a hare, and a boar amongst trees. Round the outer edge is a border of short white strokes.
History note: Christie's, 14 February, 1910, lot 16; purchased for £7 by Mr S. Fenton for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 43.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
16th Century, Late
Production date:
dated
AD 1590
Decoration composed of slip
Accession number: C.1852-1928
Primary reference Number: 72758
Old object number: 3171
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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