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Pottery: Unidentified Barcelona pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with a hound chasing a hare or rabbit, surrounded by a border of swags
Earthenware, the front tin-glazed white and painted in blue, yellow, green, and orange high-temperature colours; the reverse apparently slip-coated, and either covered with a very thin tin-glaze or a lead-glaze with some tin giving it opacity. Circular with a wide sloping rim, shallow curved sides and almost flat centre, standing on a footring. Two holes for suspension have been peirced at the top of the rim. Decorated in the middle with a hound chasing a hare towards the right, surrounded by a wide yellow band between pairs of narrower blue bands. On the rim is a border of blue swags of drapery with orange spots in the spaces below, and stylized trefoil leaves above. The outer edge is yellow.
History note: William Ridout; sold Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout Collection of Itlaian Majolica, European Potteryu, Faience and Delftware, p. 24, lot 124, first part; Henry Scipio Reitlinger, London; the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, 1999
Diameter: 35.4 cm
Height: 5.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
17th Century
Circa
1600
CE
-
1699
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( in blue, yellow, green and orange)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, the front tin-glazed white and painted in blue, yellow, green, and orange high-temperature colours; the reverse apparently slip-coated, and either covered with a very thin tin-glaze or a lead-glaze with some tin giving it opacity.
Inscription present: circular paper label with blue border printed in blue
Inscription present: rectangular green paper strip
Accession number: C.299-1991
Primary reference Number: 74275
Packing number: EURCER 125
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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