Tureen: C.1917 & A-1928

Maker(s)

Production: Workshop 3

Entities

• Tureen
• Cover
• tureen and cover

Categories

• Lead-glazed earthenware
• Slipware
• Swiss slipware

Description

Slipware bowl and cover with two ring handles and a knob in the form of a pear on a stalk, decorated on the outside with marbling in white slip, and inside with an incised and painted floral sprays, and rouletting round the rims.

Pale red earthenware, thrown, with applied moulded handles and knob, coated with cream slip internally and reddish-brown slip externally, and marbled in white; incised, painted, and rouletted decoration inside both pieces under the lead glaze. The base is undecorfated. The bowl has deep curved sides and an everted rim, with a ring handle below it on opposing sides. The domed cover has a narrow border, and a flange underneath which fits inside the bowl. The knob is in the shape of a pear on a twig with two leaves, painted naturalistically in yellow and green. The exterior is decorated with random splashes of white slip to create a marbled effect on the red-brown ground. The interior of the bowl is decorated with an incised floral spray, painted in green, yellow and manganese-brown, and is incised below with the date, 1816. Below the rim there are bands of rouletting covered by horizontal bands of green, yellow and reddish-brown. The underside of the cover has an incised floral spray, similarly coloured, and bands of rouletting on the inside and outside of the flange and border.

Notes

History note: Bought at Thun,(probably from Mrs Born-Straub) on 3 May 1904 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

19th Century, Early
Production date: dated AD 1816

Note

This type of covered bowl was used for soup.