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Tile Picture of a Clock
Painter:
Griethuizen, Abraham van
Factory:
Unknown
Tin-glazed and painted earthenare
Composed of six tiles. Earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in greyish-blue, olive-green, yellow and manganese with a clock in Louis XVI style with the hands at 11.53. The clock itself is mounted on a column surmounted by a neo-classical ewer, rising from a rectangular base. On the right of the base there is a reclining putto and on the left a standing putto holding the end of a laurel wreath draped over the top of the clock. The tiles are numbered 1-6 on their backs.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 0.7 cm
Height: 37.8 cm
Width: 25.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
Circa
1800
CE
-
1810
CE
Attributed probably to the Wapen van Cantzich pottery, Rotterdam by Rackham (1935). For reattribution to Utrecht, see van Dam (1999). Some clock tile pictures are inscribed with the place name Utrecht, see Sotheby's Olympia, 19 April 2007, lot 8 in Documentation.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( greyish-blue, olive-green, yellow and manganese)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Inscription present: one number on each tile
Accession number: C.2845A-F-1928
Primary reference Number: 15834
Old object number: 1344
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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