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Plate of Mussels
Production: Unidentified Rouen pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, brown, green, and black
Buff earthenware, moulded, hand-modelled, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, yellowish-green, brown, and black. The object comprises a deep dish with curved sides and a wavy edge, with a bowl upside down on top of it, over and around which the separately made trompe l'oeil mussels are arranged. The dish has a blue and black border of alternating panels of cloud scroll and scale pattern separated by panels containing half of a multi-petalled flower. The upside down bowl is white and appears to be undecorated The mussels are variously completely closed, half open, and fully open. A few are in separated halves without their contents, showing either the white inside or the dark brown, black and yellowish-green exteriors. The whole is very heavy for its size.
History note: Lovett Collection; sold Puttick & Simpson, London, 6 March 1903, Lovett Sale, lot 285; Mr Mossel by whom sold on 9 March 1903 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 27.5 cm
Height: 11.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, second half#
Circa
1750
CE
-
1800
CE
Decoration composed of high temperature colours ( blue, yellowish-green, brown, and black)
Accession number: C.2293-1928
Primary reference Number: 76701
Old object number: 1434
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Plate of Mussels" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76701 Accessed: 2024-11-02 21:32:51
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