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Maker: Unknown (Perhaps)
Earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted thinly in blue.
Waisted albarello with six slanting vertical ribs, sloping shoulders, and cylindrical neck expanding towards the rim.
The sides are decorated with vertical plaits between the ribs which are blue overall. Below the ribs are two horizontal bands; on the shoulder, slanting strokes between horizontal bands with a wide and two narrow horizontal bands above.
History note: Probably Vicomte Bernard d'Hendecourt, Paris; Sotheby's, 8 May 1929, Catalogue of the very choice and valuable collections of Vicomte Bernard d'Hendecourt of 7 rue Bayard, Paris, lot 70; sold to Kerin; Cecil Leitch and Kerin Ltd., London.
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund.
Height: 22.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1931-10-18) by Cecil Leitch & Kerin Ltd.
17th Century, first half#
Circa
1600
CE
-
1650
CE
Formerly attributed to Florence (Rackham, 1935)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( in blue)
Base
Diameter 10 cm
Widest Part
Diameter 15 cm
Rim
Diameter 9.8 cm
Body
Ribs
except base
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Accession number: C.40-1931
Primary reference Number: 74929
Glaisher Addition number: Gl. Add. 31
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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