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Cow
Production: The Greek A Factory
Pale buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple. The cow is supported on a rectangular base with canted corners and sloping sides. It is walking to the viewer's right with its right front leg forward, and its head turned to its right. Its horns, feet and tail are blue, its ears manganese-purple, and at the top of each leg there is a spray of leaves with a red and yellow flower. Over its back it has a blanket decorated with formal flowers and scrolls in all the colours. The top of the base is green, and its sides are decorated with half flowers and scrolls in blue, green, yellow, and red. There is a ventilation hole in the centre of the underside of the cow. A pair with C.2747A-1928.
History note: Fresco, London, from whom bought in 1892 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10 cm
Length: 12 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Mid#
Circa
1770
CE
-
1850
CE
The mark APK joined should stand for Pieter Kocz who was proprietor of the Greek A factory from 1701-22, but the quality of the modelling of the cows indicates that they were probably made in the later 18th or 19th century.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple)
Base
Length 8 cm
pale buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Pale buff earthenware, moulded in parts and assembled, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple high-temperature colours
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.2747B-1928
Primary reference Number: 74014
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Cow" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74014 Accessed: 2024-12-27 19:28:04
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