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Production: Unidentified Manises pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware pharmacy jar of albarello form, painted in blue and copper lustre
Pale red earthenware tin-glazed creamy-white, and painted in dark cobalt-blue, and copper lustre. Of albarello form with slightly waisted sides, sloping shoulder, and everted mouth, standing on an everted foot. Decorated with with two horizontal blue stripes with cusps of lustre above and below to which are attached palmettes of alternating colours, and with lustred stems of fern-like leaves in the spaces. Round the neck is a blue band with blue trefoil leaves branching from it, and lustred fern-like leaves and scroll in the spaces.
Purchased with the Leverton Harris Fund
Height: 28.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1945-07-20) by The Leverton Harris Fund
Renaissance
Circa
1435
CE
-
1470
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt) reduced-pigment lustre
Throwing
: Earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue and reduced-pigment lustre
Tin-glazing
Accession number: EC.26-1945
Primary reference Number: 76923
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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