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Production: Unidentified Nevers factory
Tin-glazed earthenware plate painted in blue, filled with greengages painted naturalistically in green and yellow
Buff eathenware, the plate and fruit moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue on the dish, and shades of yellow and green on the greengages. The glaze has crawled on the greengages. The circular dish has a shaped six-sided edge, shallow curved and dimpled sides, and a footring which is pierced by two suspension holes. The inside of the rim is decorated with a blue border comprising a line with pairs of scrolls with two dots below at intervals alternating with a shallow triangular motif formed by downward pointing lines. The twenty-five greengages are painted naturalistically in shades of yellow and green.
History note: Fenton, Cranbourne Street, London from whom purchased in 1899 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 9.6 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 colour
( blue, yellow and green)
Plate
Diameter 20.8 cm
Greengages
Inscription present: part of a rectangular white paper label with upper corners cut and a narrow blue border
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label
Accession number: C.2321-1928
Primary reference Number: 76717
Old object number: 1244
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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