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Production: Unidentified
Tin-glazed earthenware dish with lobed sides decorated in blue, yellow and manganese with a lion in a landscape and a border of stylized flowers and leaves
Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed greyish-blue, and painted in blue, and and sponged in yellow, with manganese-purple outlines. Circular with nine lobed everted rim and deep sides, standing on a footring. The middle is decorated with a yellow Chinese lion walking to the viewer's left with a fruit tree with sponged foliage on the right, a flowering plant on the left, and water in the foreground. On the curved rim and sides there is a wavy stem bearing highly stylized yellow tulips and other flowers, one on each lobe, with smaller trefoil leaves above and below the stem.
History note: Mrs Kerridge, Great Portland Street, London, who had bought it at a sale where 'things from the country were sold'; sold by her on 13 April 1894 for £1 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 35.5 cm
Height: 7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Circa
1690
CE
-
1700
CE
Attribution to Delft is uncertain
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue, yellow, and manganese-purple)
Foot
Diameter 12 cm
greyish-blue
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed greyish-blue, and painted in blue and yellow, and sponged in yellow, with manganese-purple outlines
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.2644-1928
Primary reference Number: 73846
Old object number: 282
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Dish" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/73846 Accessed: 2024-11-05 14:00:36
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