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Maker: Unknown
Maiolica ring flask, painted in green, yellow, orange, and dark brown.
Earthenware, tin-glazed except for the base and a short distance above it. Painted in green, yellow, orange, and dark brown. the flask is in the shape of a ring of six bosses with dimples on each side, standing on a rectangular foot, the short slender neck flanked by two sloping handles, each formed by two strips of clay with a serrated strip between them.
The bosses are decorated to resemble flowers. Round the central space are narrow yellow and orange bands between brown, with slanting brown strokes over them. The outer edges of the flask have vertical stripes of three colours flanked by green. The outer strips of the handles are green, and the serrated inner strips are horizontally striped in yellow and orange. Round the neck is a dark red cord terminating in a tassel made up of several smaller tassels.
History note: Leone Dalle Torre, 355 Piazzetta dei Leoni, Venice, from whom purchased in October 1903 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher (MS Cat. 1094, also Typed Cat. 1094).
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 20.9 cm
Height: 28.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1800
CE
-
1900
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( green, yellow, orange, and dark brown)
Throwing
: Earthenware, tin-glazed except for the base and a short distance above it. Painted in green, yellow, orange, and dark brown.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.2245-1928
Primary reference Number: 80765
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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