Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Production:
Workshop 3
Entities
Categories
Description
Earthenware soup tureen and cover with a bird finial, coated in cream slip and decorated in reddish-brown slip and blue, green, yellow and manganese-purple under lead-glaze
Red earthenware, thrown; the bowl with applied handles, and the cover with applied moulded and hand modelled finial, coated overall with cream slip, and painted in reddish-brown slip, and blue, green, and yellow and manganese-brown under lead-glaze. The inside of the bowl, and underside of the cover has incised and painted decoration. The bowl has deep curved sides, with an imitation rope handle on opposing sides, and a high foot with an edging of small balls of clay. The cover is domed with narrow border, and is decorated on top with four double arches radiating from a finial in the form of a bird bath with a bird perching in it. The exteriors of the bowl and cover are decorated with scattered flowerheads comprising spots of red-brown slip with blue spots in the middle, and with green, yellow and brown bands round the edges. Inside the bowl there is an incised and painted bull flanked by plants, and below the rim, wide green and yellow bands and a narrow brown band. The underside of the cover has a motif formed by tulip stems radiating from an eight-petalled flower.. The scrolls and bird bath on the cover are painted in yellow and green and blue, and the bird is mainly yellow with bluish-green wings outlined in manganese-brown, and a beak of that colour.
Notes
History note: E. Calame, Rue du Grand Chêne, Lausanne from whom purchased for 9 francs on August 23 1912 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 26.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
19th Century, Early
Circa
1800
CE
-
1810
CE
Components of the work
Dcoration
composed of
oxide colours
( blue, green, and yellow)
Surface
composed of
slip
( cream and reddish-brown)
Bowl
Diameter 19.3 cm
Cover
Diameter 19.3 cm
Body
Decoration
Knob
Materials used in production
Lead-glaze
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Lead-glazing
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: white paper stick on label with cut top corners and red printed border on left, top and right sides
- Text: 3504/Soup tureen/and cover of/Swiss pottery/(Langnau)./Bright lustrous colour. Bidr/on top./b. at Lausanne/Aug 23.1912
- Location: On underside of base of bowl
- Method of creation: Hand written in black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.1909 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 72843
Old object number: 3504
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 September 2025
Last processed: Tuesday 4 November 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
