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Sugar caster with Bérain style border

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An image of Sugar caster/sugar castor. Unknown factory, France, Rouen. Vase-shaped body supported by a short incurved stem rising from a domed foot of ogee outline. The high, screw-on cover is pierced by petal and leaf motifs, and has a stepped circular finial. The foot and neck have a Bérain style border, that on the neck with pendant swags and tassels below on the shoulder. The cover has a narrow border and the rest of the surface is scattered with groups of dots and small ladder-like motifs beween the openings. The outer edge of the foot and the body around its junction with the stem have a border of stylized leaves. The underside of the foot is marked 'A.' Earthenware, pierced, tin-glazed, and painted in cobalt-blue. Height, whole, 25 cm, diameter, whole, 10.4 cm, diameter, foot, 8.7 cm, circa 1700-1720. Berainesque.

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Sugar caster/sugar castor. Unknown factory, France, Rouen. Vase-shaped body supported by a short incurved stem rising from a domed foot of ogee outline. The high, screw-on cover is pierced by petal and leaf motifs, and has a stepped circular finial. The foot and neck have a Bérain style border, that on the neck with pendant swags and tassels below on the shoulder. The cover has a narrow border and the rest of the surface is scattered with groups of dots and small ladder-like motifs beween the openings. The outer edge of the foot and the body around its junction with the stem have a border of stylized leaves. The underside of the foot is marked 'A.' Earthenware, pierced, tin-glazed, and painted in cobalt-blue. Height, whole, 25 cm, diameter, whole, 10.4 cm, diameter, foot, 8.7 cm, circa 1700-1720. Berainesque.

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  • Accession Number: C.2284-1928
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Amy Jugg
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 633 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 394.91kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1
  • Captured: 2014:03:20 15:11:52

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18th Century Berain style Berainesque blue blue and white cobalt cover earthenware finial Fitz_AA French garlands glazed leaf leaves lighthouse caster ogee petals pierced pottery sugar caster sugar castor sugar shaker swags tableware tin-glazed

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