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Bowl with fish on its cover
Production:
Three Ash Barrels Factory
Proprietor:
Hoorn, Hendrik van
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in blue, green, yello, and manganese-purple
Buff earthenware, moulded in parts, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, brownish-orange, manganese-purple. The bowl is in the shape of a conical cabbage with pointed serrated leaves, and is attached to a stand formed by four slanting leaves of the same type. In the middle of the understide there are three spur marks. The circular domed cover has on top a coiled fish holding a smaller fish in its open mouth. The leaves of the bowl are painted alternatively in bluish-green or bluish-green with yellow edges. The interior is undecorated. The leaves forming the stand have yellow edges, and there are narrow irregular areas of blue between them. The cover is green, and the fish is blue and green with yellow spots on its body, and manganese-purple spots on its tail which is pale yellow with streaks of brownish-orange.
History note: Mr Mossel, Amsterdam, from whom bought in September 1902 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, second half#
Circa
1760
CE
-
1800
CE
The Drie Posteleyne Astonne (Three Ash Barrels) factory operated from 1655 to 1804. Hendrik van Hoorn was its proprietor from 1759 to 1804.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, brownish-orange, manganese-purple)
Stand
Width 18 cm
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Moulding
: Buff earthenware moulded in parts, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue, green, yellow, brownish-orange, manganese-purple
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: cross
Accession number: C.2736 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 73993
Old object number: 1376
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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