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Production: Unidentified French pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and manganese-purple
Buff earthenware, the back moulded in relief, the receptacle thrown and applied, tin-glazed and painted in blue and manganese-purple. The back is vesica-shaped with a winged cherub's head in relief at the top, and a Crucifixion below, with a pierced hole for a suspension cord or hook between them. The water receptacle is bowl-shaped with an everted rim, and a narrow foot. The cherub's head and the details of the Crucifixion, and inscription INRI are outlined in manganese-purple. The cherub's wings, the Cross and Christ's loin cloth are blue and there are sprays of blue foliage on either side, and a border of uneven vertical strokes round the receptacle below the rim on the exterior. There is a firing crack on the viewer's right of the reverse.
History note: Purchased in London, about 1896 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequst
Height: 18.1 cm
Width: 8.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century-19th Century#
Circa
1700
CE
-
1850
CE
Dr Glaisher considered that this holy water stoup or benitier may have been made in Brittanny. Small holy water stoups were hung up inside the downstairs of houses, or were hung on the bed head.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt and purple from manganese)
Back
Receptacle
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Accession number: C.2378-1928
Primary reference Number: 76737
Old object number: 459
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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