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Vase: C.2240.2 & A-1928

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

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Description

Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-brown.
Campana-shaped body with trumpet-shaped foot and domed cover with a teat-shaped finial.
The cover has a mottled yellow ground, decorated on each side with a cartouche containing a lion's mask, surrounded by flowers and foliage, and round the outer edge with a blue band between two orange. The finial is striped horizontally in yellow, blue, and orange. The upper part of the vase is decorated with coast scenes with classical ruins and mountains, and the lower part is en suite with the cover. On the foot are coast scenes with domestic buildings and mountains and, round the outer edges, lightly sketched brown foliage over a wide blue band between two orange.

Notes

History note: Countess Howard de Walden; Thomas Sutton, Eastbourne, purchased in February 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher (MS Cat. 1121).

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 46.0 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, Mid
Circa 1740 - 1760

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( in blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-brown)
Cover Diameter 20.5 cm

Materials used in production

Tin-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-brown.

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2240.2 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 73281
Old object number: 1121

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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