Maker: Unknown
Maiolica basin for ewer, painted in blue, yellow, orange, and purple with a shield, gadroons, shell-shapes and foliage in relief.
Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. The glaze is thickly applied, and obscures the detail of the moulding. Painted in blue, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple.
Shape 72. The rib round the boss is moulded in relief with a foliated stem. The well is decorated with ten spiral reversed gadroons separated by foliage in relief, and the sloping rim has five shell-shaped depressions flanked by foliage in relief.
In the middle, beneath a prelate's or cardinal's hat, is a shield charged with the arms azure, two swords crossed in saltire proper, the hilts in chief or, flanked on each side by six tassels arranged one, two, three.
History note: Probably Sotheby's, 5 December 1918, lot 164; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 51.1 cm
Height: 6.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century#
Circa
1650
CE
-
1675
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( in blue, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple)
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. The glaze is thickly applied, and obscures the detail of the moulding. Painted in blue, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple.
Accession number: C.2222-1928
Primary reference Number: 80801
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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