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Stove tile. Light buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue, green, yellow, brown and manganese. Rectangular with an oval depression in the middle of the back. Within a frame composed of a narrow and a wide blue line, a buch of fruit suspended from a drapery; a fly is perched on the central fruit.
History note: Bought from B. Peters', Lucerne, September, 1901
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 2.8 cm
Height: 15.6 cm
Length: 24.1 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century
Circa
1600
CE
-
1650
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, brown and manganese)
Glaze
composed of
tin-glaze
Moulding : Earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue, green, yellow, brown and manganese
Accession number: C.2964-1928
Primary reference Number: 15907
Old object number: Gl. 1814
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Stove tile" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15907 Accessed: 2023-03-23 12:08:49
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Accession Number: C.21-1910
Accession Number: EC.37-1942
Accession Number: EC.50-1943
Accession Number: C.2963-1928
£8.00
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