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Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and manganese-purple
Buff earthenware, thickly potted, tin-glazed except for most of the base, and painted on the exterior in blue and manganese-purple. The lower part of an albarello with bulging sides rising from a concave disk base, and contracting slightly as they rise. The main field is decorated in blue with three half horizontal leaves with plants with spiral tendrils rising between them. Below this there is are horizontal bands, blue, manganese-purple, and two blue, then a row of large blue spots, and round the projecting edge of the base two blue bands. There is a hole in the base.
History note: Probably found in Cambridge; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 14.5 cm
Width: 10.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( cobalt-blue and manganese-purple)
Surface
composed of
tin-glaze
Base
Diameter 10.3 cm
buff Earthenware
Throwing (pottery technique) : Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed, and painted in blue and manganese-purple
Accession number: C.40.F4-1928
Primary reference Number: 74922
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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