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Maker: Unknown (Perhaps)
Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white overall. Painted in blue, sage-green, yellow, orange, brown, and manganese-purple. Inverted piriform body standing on a circular spreading foot, the upper part covered by a domed false cover surmounted by a globular finial with a hole in the top.
On the body is a coast scene with trees and buildings and the sun rising over distant mountains. The false cover and the foot have yellow grounds decorated with radiating elongated petals outlined in yellow and brown. There are two manganese horizontal bands between the top of the landscape and the upper part, and two more below the finial.
History note: Countess Howard de Walden; Thomas Sutton, Eastbourne, from whom purchased in February 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher (MS Cat. 1118 and Typed Cat. 1118 where it states `Mr Sutton priced it at 30/-'. `there were a pair of these ornaments - the other being No. 1117, but that I gave away.'
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 23.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century
Circa
1700
CE
-
1800
CE
Perhaps Castelli or Naples
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( in blue, sage-green, yellow, orange, brown, and manganese-purple)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Widest Part
Diameter 10.5 cm
Foot
Diameter 8.1 cm
Accession number: C.2242-1928
Primary reference Number: 80771
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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