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Production: Unidentified Bayreuth factory (Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and a little manganese-purple. . The feeding cup has a bulbous oval body standing on a circular foot which is concave underneath. The top is partly covered, and it has a curving spout attached to the body, and a loop handle (replacement). The top is decorated with a trellis of manganese lines with blue crosses at the intersections. Both sides are decorated with scrolling stylized foliage growing downwards from two horizontal lines round the top. The spout has horizontal lines on its top and underside.
History note: Bought at Zurich in 1903 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 8.5 cm
Length: 18.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
Production date:
circa
AD 1740
On purchase, Dr Glaisher believed that this feeding cup might be from Zurich, but Bernard Rackham catalogued it as Bayreuth in 1935 (see Documentation).
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( cobalt and manganese oxides)
Body
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Accession number: C.2895-1928
Primary reference Number: 76771
Old object number: 1869
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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