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Screw-top bottle: C.2056-1928

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Westerwald pottery

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Description

Grey stoneware, thrown, with applied handle and detachable stopper, incised and impressed knibis decoration, painted in blue (smalt) and salt-glazed. The bottle is of elongated ovoid form standing on a flat base, and has a short cylindrical neck, and a small loop handle of D section. The stopper has a circular slightly convex top, which has been stuck into the neck. The decoration is in four horizontal zones divided by blue bands. The top and third zones have bands of interlocking impressed circles with their centres painted in blue. The second zone has a band zig-zag knibis decoration, and the fourth zone a band of knibis decoration in which the individual impressed strokes begin at different levels so that a wavy band is formed. The neck is encircled by a blue band, and the top of the cover is blue overall.

Notes

History note: R. Little, 41, Castle Street, Carlisle, from whom bought for 5s 0d. in June 1901 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 18.7 cm
Width: 9.2 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century
Circa 1700 - 1799

Note

A comparable bottle with knibis decoration and incised heart motifs is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (BK-NM-2028)

Components of the work

Body
Decoration
Surface

Materials used in production

grey Stoneware

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2056-1928
Primary reference Number: 76586
Old object number: 2013

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 29 April 2024

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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