Sugar caster with Bérain style border

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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