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Production: Three Ash Barrels Factory
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue. Oviform with a short cylindrical neck. The neck is decorated with a border of birds in panels reserved in a blue ground. The rest of the body is painted with pearcoks and small birds amongs scattered pseudo-Chinese flowers.
History note: Mr George Jennings of Walkerswill, Southwold, from whom purchased for £5.10s.0d. on 1 June 1907 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 21.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Circa
1679
CE
-
1700
CE
The Three Ash Barrels Factory (Drie Posteleyne Astonne) operated between 1655 and 1804. The mark on this vase, GK indicates that it was made during the directorship of Gerrit Pietersz Kam
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: straight stroke of K goes through the G
Accession number: C.2499-1928
Primary reference Number: 73601
Old object number: 2655
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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