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Production: Unidentified Nevers pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware vessel in the form of a bath in which is a reclining nude woman holding a cornucopia
Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, yellow, ochre, and manganese-purple. The vessel is moulded in the shape of a bath, standing on a splayed, gadrooned foot. Seven shells project from the upper edge at one end. Inside is a relief figure of a nude woman holding a cornucopia who reclines with her head on the edge of the bath. The details of her body are coloured in ochre, and the cornucopia is blue and yellow, both with manganese-purple outlines. Each side of the bath is decorated with a spray of foliage in blue with manganese outlines, and round the upper edge there are three horizontal bands. The exterior is undecorated.
History note: Christie's, 26 May 1910, part of lot 79; purchased for £12.12.0 (this item considered to be £3.3.0) by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 6.3 cm
Length: 18 cm
Width: 10.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century
Louis XIII (1610-43)
Louis XIV (1638-1715)
Circa
1610
CE
-
1650
CE
Vessels of this shape were made in lead-glazed earthenware by Bernard Palissy or his followers. They are thought to be the 'gondolles' mentioned in documents referring to the Italian potter known in France as Baptiste Conrade, and his uncle Augustin Conrade in Nevers in 1611 and 1612, and are referred to in English ceramic literature as 'gondolas'. Comparable vessels were made in Montepellier, and also in London, see Fitzwilliam Museum, C.1420-1928.Further examples are in the Musée de la Céramique et Beaux-Arts, Nevers, (inv. no. NF 997.1.1), the Musée de la Céramique, Sèvres, and the Musée de Cluny, Paris (inv. no. 1721), see Documentation.
Decoration
composed of
high temperature colours
( blue, yellow, ochre, and manganese-purple derived from metallic oxides)
Surface
composed of
tin-glaze
Foot
Length 8.5 cm
Width 5.7 cm
Press-moulding : Buff earthenware, press-moulded in two parts, joined, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, yellow, ochre, and manganese-purple high temperature colours
Accession number: C.3013-1928
Primary reference Number: 76833
Old object number: 3198
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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