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Plate: C.2380-1928

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Current Location: In storage

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Production: Unknown

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Description

Earthenware, tin-glazed yellow and painted in green, yellow, manganese-brown and black with floral sprays

Buff earthenware, tin-glazed yellow overall, and painted in green, yellow, manganese-brown, and black. The plate is circular with a moulded shell edge, sloping rim, curved sides and flat centre. In the middle there is a floral spray within two narrow concentric circles, and on the rim, five smaller floral sprays. A suspension hole has been pierced in the rim, close to the edge at the top when the central flower spray is upright.

Notes

History note: Athens, where bought in April 1904 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 9.6 cm
Height: 2.7 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Note

The origin of this plate is uncertain. When J.W.L. Glaisher bought it was as coming from the Greek Islands, but thought that Italy was more likely. Bernard Rackham in his Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection . . . (1935) considered that the plate was' probably Southern French (perhaps Montpellier)'.

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( green, yellow, manganese-brown, and black)
Surface composed of tin-glaze ( yellow)

Materials used in production

buff Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Moulding : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed yellow overall, and painted in green, yellow, manganese-brown, and black

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2380-1928
Primary reference Number: 76739
Old object number: 2108

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 24 June 2025

Associated departments & institutions

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

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