IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74920 accession number: C.40 & A-1972 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The stand is oval with a wide flared rim. Around the rim are four more moulded masks, holding oak-leaf swags over four slightly convex, plain turquoise ovals. The circular centre is mid-blue, encircled by a thin band of ochre and a wider band of green foliage on magenta ground. The underside is clear glazed. object type: The ewer is of classical shape with a small foot, ovoid body, tall neck and scrolled rim. The highly ornate loop handle which extends above the rim is modelled as Triton, a merman bending backwards and clutching his bifurcated foliate tail. A moulded mermaid is applied below the spout, her arms spread as on the prow of a ship. The body is decorated with applied green foliage set on a magenta ground, two moulded masks and four large oval turquoise panels. The underside is hollow and clear-glazed, except for a broad foot-rim, with a central metal wing-nut bolting the base to the body. object type: Earthenware ewer and stand, moulded in several parts and decorated with applied high relief figures, green, ochre, buff and magenta majolica glazes and blue enamel. title: ewer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Charles and Lavinia Handley-Read Collection, London; LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Perceval Fund and grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74920 PEOPLE ------------------- Arnoux, Leon Jeannest, Pierre Emile Triton TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, moulded and modelled, decorated with Majolica glazes and blue enamel modelling TECHNIQUES ---------- moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: lead-glazed earthenware category: majolica ware DATING ------ creation date: 1856 - 1856 creation date earliest: 1856 creation date latest: 1856 culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Minton & Co. maker: Jeannest, Pierre Emile EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art - The Handley-Read Collection title: Variations on Ceramic Themes, Big is Beautiful? CITATIONS -------- Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art , The Handley-Read Collection Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery Minton 1798-1910 19th Century Furniture, Sculpture, Ceramics, Silver and Works of Art High Victorian Decorative Arts and Design British Ceramics and Glass, including Welsh Porcelain Connoisseur Masterpieces of World Ceramics Dictionary of Minton Minton: The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production Minton ‘Majolica’: an historical survey and exhibition catalogue Majolica: British, Continental and American Wares, 1851-1915 The Ceramic Art of Great Britain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_40_20_26_20A_1972_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 474 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_40_20_26_20A_1972_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 474 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_40_20_26_20A_1972_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 474 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_40_20_26_20A_1972_283_29.jpg height: 390 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_40A_1972_281_29.jpg height: 656 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_40A_1972_281_29.jpg height: 432 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_40A_1972_281_29.jpg height: 656 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_40A_1972_281_29.jpg height: 216 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_40A_1972_282_29.jpg height: 646 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_40A_1972_282_29.jpg height: 425 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_40A_1972_282_29.jpg height: 646 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_40A_1972_282_29.jpg height: 213 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_40_20_26_20A_1972_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 480 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_40_20_26_20A_1972_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 480 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_40_20_26_20A_1972_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 480 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_40_20_26_20A_1972_284_29.jpg height: 385 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_40_1972.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 575 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_40_1972.jpg height: 661 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_40_1972.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 575 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_40_1972.jpg height: 330 pixels width: 250 pixels