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Tin-glazed earthenware plate painted in polychrome with a cock amidst flowering plants, and a border pattern
Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red and dark manganese-brown. The plate is circular with a sloping rim, deep curved sides and flat centre. The well is painted in all the colours with a cock, facing to the left, amidst stylized flowering plants. The rim is decorated with four curved rectangular panels of red trellis pattern separated by smaller panels with green, yellow and red strokes forming a fan shape, all between two dark manganese-brown bands. The reverse has three peg marks and is undecorated.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.5 cm
Height: 2.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, first half
Circa
1800
-
1850
This plate, although of a different shape, and pattern, is similar in colouring and style to another, C.2299-1928. It was attributed probably to the factory of Pierre Jacques de la Mettairie (1766-1849) in Rouen in Bernard Rackham's Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection (1935).On the proprietor's death the factory was continued by his widow, and her son by her first husband.
Decoration
composed of
high temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, red, and dark manganese-brown derived from metallic oxides)
Surface
composed of
tin-glaze
Moulding : Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and dark manganese-brown
Accession number: C.2300-1928
Primary reference Number: 73322
Old object number: 1513
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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