Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Production:
unidentified Langnau pottery
Entities
Categories
Description
Pale red earthenware, thrown, with applied moulded handles and knob, coated with cream slip internally and brown slip externally, with marbled, and incised and painted decoration. The tureen has deep curved sides with a projecting horizontal band level with the shell-shaped horizontal handles. The cover is domed with a narrow border, and a flange underneath which fits inside the bowl. The knob is in the form of a low mushroom. The exterior is coated with brown slip marbled in cream slip and splashes of green. The interior of the bowl is decorated with rouletting round the upper edge and in the base has an incised flowering plant painted in green, yellow and brown slip, below which is incised the date, '1780'. The underside of the cover is decorated with three concentric circles of rouletting and in the middle has an incised floral spray painted in green and yellow and brown. The underside of the rim and outer edge of the flange are rouletted overall.
Notes
History note: Mrs Born-Straub, Thun, from whom purchased in Sept 1903 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 12 cm
Width: 20.3 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, Late
Production date:
dated
AD 1780
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream and brown)
high temperature colour
( green and yellow from metallic oxides)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Bowl Rim
Diameter 16.6 cm
Body And Cover
Handles
Visible Surfaces
Materials used in production
red-brown
Earthenware
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 1780
- Location: On base of interior of bowl
- Method of creation: Incised
- Type: Date
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.1913 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 72851
Old object number: 1832
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 4 November 2025
Last processed: Tuesday 4 November 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
