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Fritware painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze
Fritware, mould made painted in blue and with black outlines under a colourless glaze
Shape: rectangular body narrowing via a shoulder carination to a straight neck, silver mount over the neck with silver lid ending in a finial.
Exterior: on each face of the body, within a bracketed panel, two confronted cranes reserved in blue on a background of cloud scrolls and flower heads. On the shoulder a bracketed line below a frieze of scrolling leaves and flower heads reserved in blue. Silver neck terminates in lappets; otherwise neck and lid are undecorated. Glaze runs unevenly over the lowest sections of the body and only covers the corners of the underside of the base.
Interior: not visible
History note: From the Joseph Dixon Collection, sold at Christie’s, 16th-17th March, 1911, lot 132
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 17.3 cm
Weight: 332 g
Width: 7.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1911-03-20) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
17th Century, Mid#
Circa
1640
-
Circa
1665
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
glaze
( colourless, covers lower body unevenly, only on the corners of the underside of the base)
Lid And Neck
composed of
silver
Rim
Diameter 2.2 cm
Base
Diameter 6.9 cm
Lid Finial
Lid
Neck Mount
Moulding : Fritware, mould made, painted in blue and with black outlines under a colourless glaze
Inscription present: rectangular paper label
Inscription present: circular paper label
Accession number: C.42-1911
Primary reference Number: 75029
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bottle" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75029 Accessed: 2024-11-22 00:06:13
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University of Cambridge}}
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