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Potter:
Unidentified Frechen pottery
Silversmith:
Unidentified London silversmith
Salt-glazed stoneware with silver-gilt mounts and cover
Salt-glazed stoneware with a bulbous body, cyclindrical neck, spreading foot, and applied handle. The foot, neck, and top of the loop handle have silver-gilt mounts, and the thumbpiece and cover are also silver-gilt. The flat foot ring is cast and decorated with an egg and dart border. Above this is a border of dentil moulding. Cut stylised leaves hold the pottery foot in place. The neck mount is engraved with strapwork and scrolling foliage. The slightly domed cover is embossed and chased with three masks within scrolled cartouches; between are bunches of fruit on a matted ground. The urn-shaped finial stands on a gadrooned knop. The thumbpiece is a cast mask, possibly Neptune.
History note: Purchased from Percy Webster for £115.0.0. by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Width: 14.4 cm
Width: 5⅝ in
Method of acquisition: Given (1941-10-16) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
16th Century, third quarter#
Elizabeth I
1576
CE
-
1577
CE
Rhenish brown salt-glazed stoneware is sometimes referred to as 'tiger ware'. The body of this jug was probably made at Frechen near Cologne in the Rhineland.
The silversmith's mark of an incuse leaf, has not been identified.
Surface
composed of
gilt
Mounts
composed of
silver
Body
composed of
stoneware
Base
Diameter 10.2 cm
Diameter 4 in
To Top Of Finial
Height 22.8 cm
Height 9 in
Inscription present: an incuse leaf; the three parts with serrated border
Inscription present: leopard's head crowned
Inscription present: lion passant
Inscription present: 't' or possibly 'i'
Accession number: EC.32-1941
Primary reference Number: 76948
Alternate number: M/P.1-1941
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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