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Tin-glazed earthenware salt, painted in blue with a Maltese Cross, a landscape with a building, and the inscription 'REFECTORIO'
Pale buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed, and painted in greyish blue. Of waisted cylindrical form with a deep well at the top for the salt. Decorated on the exterior with a Maltese Cross, and a building (church?) between trees, with two narrow horizontal blue bands below, and above, the word 'REFECTORIO' between horizontal blue bands, with a wide blue band above which continues over the top outer edge, and three narrow bands around the well.
History note: Purchased in Cordoba about 1894 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century
Circa
1700
CE
-
Circa
1799
CE
Attributed to Talavera, or perhaps to Puente. The Maltese Cross probably indicates that the salt was made for the refectory of a house of the Order of the Knights of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, known as Hospitallers
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
( greyish and thinly applied)
Base
Diameter 11.5 cm
Throwing
: Earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed, and painted in greyish-blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.2111-1928
Primary reference Number: 73118
Old object number: 150
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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