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Production: Unidentified Nevers pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and manganese-purple with a Chinese man in a garden and a rocky landscape
Pale buff earthenware tin-glazed and painted in blue and manganese-purple. The kettle has a globular body standing on a low circular foot, a straight-sided upward-tilting spout, and a handle of D profile arching over the cover, which is of low domed form with a central knob. On one side of the body there is an oval panel with a Chinese figure seated in a garden, and on the other, a rocky landscape painted in the style of late Ming porcelain. On the front below the spout, and on top of the cover there are stylized fan-like leaves, and the handle and spout are striped. A border of U-shaped motifs encircles the shoulder and the area immediately above the foot.
History note: Sotheby's, 25 January, 1906, lot 71; bought for £1.12.0. by Dr Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 25 cm
Length: 19.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, second half#
Circa
1660
CE
-
11690
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue from cobalt and manganese-purple)
Visible Surfaces
composed of
tin-glaze
( bluish-white)
Cover
Diameter 10.2 cm
Base
Diameter 10.6 cm
Body
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.2310 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 73331
Old object number: 2470
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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