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Production: Bayreuth Faience Factory
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with a bird amidst plants and trees; pewter handle, and hinged cover
Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed inside and outside, and painted on the exterior in blue; the original handle has been replaced by a pewter handle attached to a mount round the rim, and a hinged cover with attached thumbpiece in the shape of a hemispherical standing cup with a fluted domed cover with a ball knop. The sides are painted in pseudo-Oriental style with a bird standing on rocks amidst flowering plants with a sponged tree on each side. Above and below there are two broad and two narrow horizontal bands. On the base is the mark 'B.K.' underlined, over 'b or 6'. The cover is inscribed 'J.E.H./1794'.
History note: Kissingen, where bought in 1899 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 25 cm
Width: 17 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
Knöller period
Production date:
circa
AD 1740
The Bayreuth faience factory was founded by Johann Georg Knöller in 1714 and was owned by him from 1728 until his death in 1744. The cover and handle were presumably added after the tankard had been broken.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Body
composed of
earthenware
( buff)
tin-glaze
Cover
composed of
pewter
Handle
composed of
pewter
Mount
composed of
pewter
Base
Diameter 11.2 cm
Inscription
Inscription present: the .B.K. is underlined; the final b might be 6 or possibly h
Accession number: C.2890-1928
Primary reference Number: 74171
Old object number: 1259
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Tankard" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74171 Accessed: 2024-11-15 09:34:20
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-15 09:34:20|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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