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Pottery: Unknown
Buff earthenware, reddish in the middle of the back, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue, green, yellow and manganese. Approximately square with an oval depressionin the back. Within a frame composed of a yellow line between two blue lines, a bust portrait in profile to the left of Charles, Duke of Burgundy, wearing a laurel wreath on his head and plate armour. In the upper corners there are draped curtains and on the right of the Duke's head, the inscription CAROLVS/BVRGVN-/ DIÆDVX.' in manganese. The right and left edges of the tile are green.
History note: Rev. G.A. Schneider, Cambridge; sold Sotheby's, 4 June, 1942, European Ceramics and Glass comprising the interesting and extensive collection of the Rev. G.A. Schneider..., p. 13, part of lot 56; sold to the Fitzwilliam Museum for £11.
Given by L.C.G. Clarke, MA
Depth: 1.8 cm
Height: 15.4 cm
Width: 14.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1942-11-05) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
17th Century, Late
Circa
1650
CE
-
Circa
1700
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow and manganese)
Glaze
composed of
tin-glaze
Accession number: EC.38-1942
Primary reference Number: 15924
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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