Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Maker(s)
Production:
Unidentified Westerwald pottery
Entities
Categories
Description
Pale grey salt-glazed stoneware decorated with applied moulded reliefs of the arms of Charles, Landgrave of Hesse, and half-length portraits of Queen Mary II, reserved in a manganese-purple ground ; pewter thumbpiece and cover
Pale grey stoneware, decorated with applied moulded reliefs reliefs reserved in a manganese-purple ground, and salt-glazed; pewter thumbpiece and cover. The cylindrical tankard has a turned band at the top and bottom of the sides, and a loop handle of shallow D-section. On the front are the arms of Charles, Landgrave of Hesse (1663-1730) enclosed by an oval band inscribed 'CAROLVS. D. G. LANDGR. HAESSI. PR HERSF. COM. CATT.D.Z.N. & SCHAWENB (Landgrave of Hesse, Prince of Hirschfeld, Count of KIatzenelnbogen, Diez, Ziegenhain, Nidda and Schaumberg). On either side repeated, is an oval medallion with a half-length portrait of Queen Mary II of England, enclosed by the legend, 'MARIA. D. G. MAG. BRIT. FRANC. ET HIB. REGINA. &'. Attached to the top of the handle is a hinged mount attached to the shallow flat-topped cover and fluted ball thumbpiece.
Notes
History note: An unidentified sale; Sidney Hand, Grafton Street, from whom purchased for £7.10s. on 1 March 1926 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 19.5 cm
Height: 24.5 cm
Width: 18.2 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
17th Century, Late
William III and Mary II
Circa
1689
-
1694
School or Style
Baroque
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Body
composed of
stoneware
( pale grey)
Ground
composed of
manganese-oxide
Cover And Mounts
composed of
pewter
Base
Diameter 13 cm
Medallikons
Thumbpiece
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: moulded in relief on a band around the arms
- Text: CAROLVS. D. G. LANDGR. HAESSI. PR HERSF. COM. CATT.D.Z.N. & SCHAWENB
- Location: Round arms on front of tankard
- Method of creation: Moulded in relief
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: in relief on a band around the portrait of Queen Mary
- Text: MARIA. D. G. MAG. BRIT. FRANC. ET HIB. REGINA. &
- Location: On two medallions on the sides of the tankard
- Method of creation: Moulded in relief
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: very small letters
- Text: G R
- Location: On either side of Queen Mary's crown at the top
- Method of creation: Moulded in relief
- Type: Initials
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.2042-1928
Primary reference Number: 73042
Old object number: 4796
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
