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Production: Nevers
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.
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
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 17 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, second half#
Louis XIV (1638-1715)
Circa
1650
CE
-
1700
CE
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.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue from cobalt and manganese-purple)
Surface
Accession number: C.2306-1928
Primary reference Number: 73327
Old object number: 1619
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Wig stand" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/73327 Accessed: 2024-11-22 01:03:54
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