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Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue. Cylindrical with curved shoulders, short cylindrical neck with an upward-tilting lip, and an angular handle. Decorated on the front with a quatrefoil frame with stylized flowers and fruit on its outer edge, enclosing a view of a windmill. Below are two stylized flowers and the monogram ELB for Ervan Lucas Bols, between groups of three curved motifs. The sides are decorated with detached floral sprigs and round the base there are two narrow bands, and below the handle, a fruit or flower flanked by leaves. Under the lip there is a group of formal leaves, and round the rim a narrow band. The outisde of the handle is decorated with two groups of short graduated horizontal lines with a circle and four dots between them, and down each side, a line.
History note: Unknown before Mrs Muriel Elizabeth Webb
Bequeathed by Mrs M.E. Webb
Height: 12.8 cm
Width: 9.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1996-06-10) by Webb, M. E., Mrs
19th Century, Late#
20th Century
Circa
1880
-
1940
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Base
Diameter 7.9 cm
uncertain might be lead-glazed
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Accession number: C.20-1996
Primary reference Number: 73018
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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