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Factory: Unknown
Tin-glazed earthenware sugar caster with removable pierced cover, painted in blue lambrequin designs
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in blue. Baluster-shaped body supported by a short incurved stem rising from a domed foot of ogee outline. The high, domed, screw-on cover is pierced by petal and leaf motifs, and has a stepped circular finial. The foot and neck have a Bérain style border, that on the neck with pendant swags and tassels below the shoulder. The cover has a narrow border and the rest of the surface is scattered with groups of dots and small ladder-like motifs between the perforations. The outer edge of the foot, and the body around its junction with the stem, have a border of leaves or petals. The underside of the foot is marked 'A.'
History note: Vaumousse, Rouen, from whom purchased for 50 francs on 6 April 1901 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 10.4 cm
Height: 25 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early
Circa
1700
CE
-
1720
CE
Probably made in Rouen, where it was purchased by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, but comparable casters were made at Lille, and he considered that it might have been made in northern France. The shade of blue is paler than usual for Rouen.This style of decoration was also used in Alcora in Spain, where some pieces were marked with an A. The complicated pendant border designs were described as 'broderies' by faïenciers, but became known as lambrequins in the nineteenth century.
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
Foot
Diameter 8.7 cm
Cover
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, the cover pierced, tin-glazed, except for the areas of the screw on the two parts, and painted in blue
Accession number: C.2284 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 73309
Old object number: 1199
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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