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Maker: Unknown
Maiolica coffer-shaped flask, painted in blue and yellow.
Earthenware, covered overall with speckly off-white tin glaze. Painted in blue and dark yellow. Oblong with arched top, drop handles at each end, and supports with paw feet at the front. In the middle of the front is a hasp and on the top of the lid, a circular rim with an aperture in the middle.The front and lid are decorated with blue foliate scrolls and spots radiating symmetrically from the hasp. The hasp and feet are dark yellow, and the handles are picked out in blue. The back is undecorated.
History note: Taormina, where purchased in April 1904 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 6.7 cm
Height: 9.8 cm
Length: 13.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century
Circa
1700
CE
-
1800
CE
Novelty flasks were a speciality of Caltagirone potters from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. They exist in several forms, such as bags, books, coffers, and fish. A coffer with blue geometrical decoration, dated 1684, is in the Curiale collection, Palermo. Rackham (1935), noted that there were several comparable pieces in the Museo Nazionale in Palermo.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue and dark yellow)
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, covered overall with speckly off-white tin glaze. Painted in blue and dark yellow.
Accession number: C.2255-1928
Primary reference Number: 73294
Old object number: 2022
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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