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Tulip Charger
Pottery: unidentified London pottery
Earthenware, tin-glazed on the front and lead-glazed on the reverse, painted in high-temperature colours with tulips, carnations and foliage.
Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed white, the reverse covered with clear, bluish, uneven lead-glaze, painted in blue, turquoise-green, yellow and brownish-orange. Circular with curved sides, everted rim, and narrow footrim, pierced by a correctly placed suspension hole. Decorated with three large tulips, four carnations and two buds or seed heads and foliage springing from the same point at the bottom of the rim. The edge is encircled by blue dashes partly covered by a yellow band.
History note: Christie's, 5th April, 1934, Catalogue of the Collection of English Pottery and Porcelain and Miniatures formed by Mrs M.L. Clarke, Deceased, late of Toronto, Canada, p. 8, part of lot 49; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.
Diameter: 34.2 cm
Height: 6.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
17th Century, Late
Charles II
William III and Mary II
William III (1750-1702)
Circa
1675
CE
-
1700
CE
Shape A in English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection, 1981.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( in blue, turquoise-green, yellow and brownish-orange)
Reverse
composed of
lead-glaze
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Inscription present: green rectangle
Accession number: C.308-1991
Primary reference Number: 74366
Old object number: EURCER 124
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: GR.5c.1939
Accession Number: C.1494-1928
Accession Number: C.1502-1928
Accession Number: GR.5a.1939
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