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Book-shaped Flask or Hand Warmer (?)
Production: Unidentified Westerwald pottery
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
History note: No information before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambidge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.2 cm
Width: 8.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, second half#
Circa
1650
-
1700
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
grey Stoneware
Moulding : Grey stoneware, with incised, and moulded and applied decoration, painted in cobalt-blue and salt-glazed
Accession number: C.2041-1928
Primary reference Number: 73038
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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