Delftware or French holy water stoup

An image of Holy water stoup. Unidentified Delft factory, Netherlands, or Unidentified French factory. Pale buff earthenware, moulded in relief, pierced, tin-glazed and painted in cobalt blue, circa 1700-1800. Baroque.

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Holy water stoup. Unidentified Delft factory, Netherlands, or Unidentified French factory. Pale buff earthenware, moulded in relief, pierced, tin-glazed and painted in cobalt blue, circa 1700-1800. Baroque.

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Accession Number: C.2572-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/13.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 744 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 435.75kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 13/1
Captured: 2014:02:28 14:35:46

Key words

18th Century Baroque blue blue and white Catholic Catholicism cherubs Christ crucified crucifix crucifixion Delftware earthenware Fitz_AA French glazed holy water stoup Jesus pottery religion religious stoup tin-glazed water stoup winged wings

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