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Production: Workshop 3
Red earthenware partially coated in white slip, and with incised, and painted decoration in green, yellow, and reddish-brown under lead glaze. The basin has four feet in the form of ox hooves, and four S-scroll handles alternating with four relief masks. The cover is domed and stepped and has a circular two-stage finial. The outside is decorated with short lines of white slip under the masks, lines down the sides of the handles, and bands round the cover and knob. The inside of the bowl is decorated with a spray of flowers and the name and date 'Salome/17' and Schütz/77'. The inside of the lid is decorated with a floral spray dividing the date, '1777'.
History note: Bought at Thun in 1899 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 15.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
Production date:
dated
AD 1777
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( green, yellow, and brownish-red)
slip
( white)
Bowl
Masks
Accession number: C.1912 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 72850
Old object number: 108
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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