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Production: Unidentified Westerwald pottery
Grey salt-glazed stoneware decorated with an incised plant between foliated scrolls and painted in manganese-purple and blue
Grey stoneware, thrown, with an applied handle, incised decoration, painted in blue and manganese-purple, and salt-glazed. The jug has a bulbous body with a tall cylindrical neck pinched at the front to form a lip, and a loop handle with a central longitudinal ridge, and a pointed extension below its lower junction with the body. On the front is an incised plant with thirteen pairs of lance-shaped leaves, and one more on the right of the stem, alternately coloured in blue and manganese-purple, and perhaps intended to represent a palm frond or fern. This is flanked by vertical foliated scrolls with small areas coloured manganese-purple, reserved in a blue ground. The area on either side of, and under, the handle is undecorated.The glaze has produced a prominent 'orange-peel' effect on the grey areas.
History note: Mr Freeman’ sale at Cambridge 27 January 1904, at which bought by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 19.8 cm
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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century
Circa
1700
-
1799
Decoration
composed of
smalt
( produced by fusing cobalt with an alkali, usually potash and sand, and grinding up to a powder mixed with water)
manganese-oxide
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Base
Diameter 7.2 cm
Body
grey Stoneware
Accession number: C.2055-1928
Primary reference Number: 73059
Old object number: 1933
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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