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Maker: Unknown
Earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in bright blue, bluish-green, dark yellow, and manganese-purple. Slender, extremely waisted albarello with recessed base.
On each side is a tulip with branching, curling leaves above and below, which curve round to meet at the sides. The blue ground has spirals incised through it. The sloping area above the base is decorated with highly stylised buds and foliage between two pairs of horizontal blue bands. On the shoulder there is one blue band, and on the neck there are two.
History note: Taormina, where purchased in April 1904 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher (Typed Cat. 2023).
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 22.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
18th Century
Circa
1675
CE
-
1900
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( in bright blue, bluish-green, dark yellow, and manganese-purple)
Widest Part
Diameter 10.5 cm
Rim
Diameter 8.0 cm
Base
Diameter 8.5 cm
except base
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in bright blue, bluish-green, dark yellow, and manganese-purple.
Accession number: C.2250-1928
Primary reference Number: 80806
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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