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Tin-glazed earthenware, painted and sponged in blue with figures in a landscape.
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in and sponged in blue. Circular with narrow, steeply sloping rim and wide shallow well, standing on a footring pierced by a correctly placed suspension hole. Decorated with a landscape with a tree on the right and a church between two trees on the left. In the middle, a gentleman holding three flowers is approaching a lady holding a fan who is walking arm in arm with a gentleman holding a cane. Overhead there are four groups of birds. On the reverse there are three spur marks on the rim.
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. 10, part of lot 70; 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: 34.6 cm
Height: 5.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
18th Century, Mid#
Circa
1730
CE
-
1740
CE
Possibly London, or Delft
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( cobalt-blue)
Tin-glazing : Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in and sponged in blue.
Inscription present: rectangular with cut corners and red border
Inscription present: oval with gold border
Accession number: C.310-1991
Primary reference Number: 74382
Packing number: EURCER 301
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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