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Production: Unidentified Friesland factory (Possibly)
Buff earthenware, thickly potted, the front tin-glazed, and painted in blue, yellow and manganese-purple; the reverse covered with cloudy lead-glaze containing some tin, and tinged with green in the middle. Circular with deep sloping sides and curved centre, standing on a wide shallow footring. The front is decorated with a woman holding in her right hand a bud or seed head on a stalk. She has long curling hair, and wears a dress with a low neckline, pointed bodice and stomacher, voluminous sleeves, and a wide striped and spotted skirt. Round the rim there are concentric circles; narrow blue, wide yellow, two narrow blue and a wide yellow. There are three spur marks in the centre.
History note: Mrs M.L. Clarke, Toronto; Christie's, 5 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 66; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1991
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
34.5
Height: 8.2 cm
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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
17th Century, Late - 18th century, Early
Circa
1690
-
1705
Decoration
composed of
high temperature colour
( blue, yellow and manganese-purple derived from metallic oxides)
Back
composed of
lead-glaze
( probably mixed with some tin-glaze producing a cloudy effect)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Footring
Diameter 12.8 cm
Reverse
Throwing (pottery technique) : Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed on the front and painted in blue, yellow and manganese-purple, the reverse, probably slip-coated and covered with a lead-glaze clouded with tin and slightly green in and around the footring
Inscription present: rectangular green
Inscription present: circular stick-on label with serrated edge
Accession number: C.315-1991
Primary reference Number: 74431
Packing number: EURCER 122
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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