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Production: Unidentified Pottery (Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware bowl painted in blue, yellow, and orange with a winged unicorn and a border of leaves
Earthenware tin-glazed on both sides and painted in blue, yellow and orange. Circular, with deep curved sides and a narrow sloping rim. The well is decorated with a fanciful winged unicorn galloping to the right over ground with small plants, enclosed by three narrow blue contric circles.. The rim has a repeating border pattern of two yellow leaves alternating with one blue, against a background of blue dots, with one blue line on the inner edge, and two lines round the outer edge.
History note: Riquelme et Fils, 5 Place de la Liberté, Biarritz from whom purchased on 7 January 1907 for 30 francs by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 31.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Circa 1580 CE - 1600 CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( and blue, yellow, orange)
buff
Earthenware
off-white
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white and painted n blue, yellow, and orange
Accession number: C.2133-1928
Primary reference Number: 73151
Old object number: 2775
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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