Production: Fauquez factory (Probably)
Cruet stand, comprising a stand and two bottles with lids (C.2358.1-1928, C.2358.2 & A-1928 and C.2358.3 & A-1928), tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, olive-green, and manganese-purple, and opaque white with floral motifs in compartments with blue outlines.
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed pale bluish-grey, and painted in blue, olive-green, manganese-purple and opaque white. The stand is in the form of two adjacent octagonal compartments with vertical sides and a cusped and wavy upper edge. A strap handle with a button thumb rest on the top is attached between the two on one side. Each bottle for oil and vinegar has a bulbous body standing on a low splayed foot, a narrow cylindrical neck with a lip at the front, and a loop handle with an upward scroll at the lower end (one has lost its handle). The domed covers have a narrow rim, and slightly conical knob.
The stand is decorated on the exterior sides with a row of sprigs of three leaves, and above has a band of triangular wavy-edged compartments edged in blue, containing a spray of manganese flowers on leafy sprays, and outside the compartments, opaque white floral sprays. A narrow wavy blue line above follows the contours of the upper edge. The handle is painted in green with a spiral and horizontal stripes. The bottles are decorated to match, and on their covers have two small sprigs of leaves and a small spray of manganese flower buds. C.358.3A has a green flower on top and C.358.2A has a blue flower on top.
History note: Annevelt, Chapel Street, Westminster ( a Dutch shop which had then just opened), where purchased in 1902 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter
Circa
1750
-
1770
Opaque white decoration was a characteristic of some faïence made in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux.
Decoration
composed of
high temperature colours
( blue, olive-green, manganese-purple, and white)
Surfaces
composed of
tin-glaze
( very pale bluish-grey)
Bottle Foot
Diameter 5.5 cm
Diameter 52 cm
Bottle
Height 16.3 cm
Width 8.8 cm
Stand
Height 5.8 cm
Length 16.4 cm
Width 9.7 cm
Bottles
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.2358.1-3-1928
Primary reference Number: 138467
Old object number: 1463
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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