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trompe l'oeil plate of plums
Production: Unidentified Nevers factory
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, yellow, and green
Buff earthenware, moulded in parts, assembled, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, yellow and green. The glaze has crawled a little on the underside, and on the plums. Several of the plums have a ventilation hole. The plate has a six-sided shaped rim, shallow curved sides, and a footring pierced by two suspension holes. It is filled with twenty-two or twenty-three plums. The plate has a blue border comprising a line with pairs of scrolls with two dots below at intervals alternating with a shallow triangular motif formed of downard strokes of different lengths. The plums are painted naturalistically in yellow with green details.
History note: Fenton, Cranbourne Street, London, from whom purchased about 1891 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, second half#
1750
-
1800
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue, green, yellow)
Dish
Diameter 20.5 cm
Plums
Accession number: C.2320-1928
Primary reference Number: 73357
Old object number: 1245
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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