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Book-shaped Flask or Hand Warmer (?): C.2041-1928

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Titles

Book-shaped Flask or Hand Warmer (?)

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Westerwald pottery

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Description

Grey stoneware with relief decoration painted in cobalt-blue and salt-glazed

Grey stoneware, moulded, with incised and applied moulded relief decoration, partly painted in cobalt-blue, and salt-glazed. The flask or hand-warmer is in the shape of a book with a large circular aperture in the top close to the spine. Pseudo-clasps hold the back and front together over the fore-edge. The front and back are decorated with nine rectangular panels: four containing masks, four containing plant motifs, and the central panel, incised lattice pattern. The spine has three horizontal ridges beween which are two panels with incised scalloped boders and in the middle a motif resembling back to back Cs with upward and downward points between them

Notes

History note: No information before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambidge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 12.2 cm
Width: 8.9 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

17th Century, second half
Circa 1650 - 1700

Components of the work

Surface composed of salt-glaze
Decoration composed of cobalt-blue

Materials used in production

grey Stoneware

Techniques used in production

Moulding : Grey stoneware, with incised, and moulded and applied decoration, painted in cobalt-blue and salt-glazed

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2041-1928
Primary reference Number: 73038

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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