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Production:
Delamettairie factory
(Probably)
Production:
Forges les Eaux factory
(Possibly)
Earthenware plate with wavy edge, the reverse tin-glazed dark manganese-brown, and the front tin-glazed white and painted in blue, green and orange-red with a spray of flowers, and on the rim with a border of mottled manganese-purple
Earthenware, moulded; the back tin-glazed dark manganese-brown (cul noir), and the front tin glazed white, and painted in blue, green orange-red, and dark manganese-brown; some of the white glaze has run over the dark brown under the rim. Circular with a wavy edge, sloping rim, and shallow well with curved sides. The front is decorated with a spray of leaves and a large blue flower with an orange-red centre and two more orange-red flowers. The rim is mottled with manganese between two concentric circles of darker manganese-purple.
History note: Bought at Caen, 1 April 1894 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 20.8 cm
Height: 2.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, first half
Circa
1800
-
1850
French faïence plates with dark manganese-brown backs, appearing almost black, are described as 'cul noir'. Faience tablewares of this type usually have simple central motifs and borders, and were produced for the lower end of the market. They were made in several pottery towns such as Rouen, Forges-les-Eeaux and
Decration
composed of
high temperature colours
( blue, green, orange-red)
Surface
composed of
tin-glaze
( white and dark manganese-brown)
Decoration
Moulding : Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed white on the front and painted in blue green orange-red and manganese-brown; tin-glazed dark manganese-brown on the reverse (cul noir)
Accession number: C.2298-1928
Primary reference Number: 76706
Old object number: 255
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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