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Wig stand: C.2306-1928

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Production: Nevers

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Description

Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and black with birds, flowers and foliage

Pale red earthenware, tin-glazed overall and painted in two shades of blue with black outlines. The globular top is hollow and has a ventilation hole at top centre. It is supported on a circular stepped and domed foot rising into a short stem with an anulet at its junction with the globe. The top of the globe is painted with two concentric circles around the ventilation hole, a band of semi-circular motifs, and another narrow circle. The rest of the globe is painted with two arrangements of stylized flowers and foliage, one of which has a bird perching on the right and another on the left. The anulet is blue and has two horizontal bands below it. The top of the foot is decorated with a border of alternating V and petal shapes with two narrow bands beyond them.

Notes

History note: Gouy et fils, 56, rue Beauvoisine, Rouen, from whom purchased for 40 francs on 14 January 1903 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 17 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Nevers ⪼ France

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

17th Century, second half#
Louis XIV (1638-1715)
Circa 1650 CE - 1700 CE

Note

This object was bought as an ornament, and was later described as a wig stand in Rackham's Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection, 1935, but seems too small for that purpose.

School or Style

Baroque
Oriental

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue from cobalt and manganese-purple)
Surface

Materials used in production

Tin-glazing
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Throwing (pottery technique)

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2306-1928
Primary reference Number: 73327
Old object number: 1619
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 19 July 2021 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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