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Potter: Unknown
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white overall; the reverse tinged with dark pink in several places. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and opaque white.
Shape 50. Circular with a slight depression in the middle. The plate has warped during firing.
The central medallion contains a beribboned shield charged with the arms argent, a fess gules (shown orange) between three crescents vert, two and one, a chief of Anjou, surrounded by blue concentric circles and radiating petals in bianco sopra bianco. Round the rim is a blue border comprising four concentric circles of different widths, a band of lozenges with dots in the spaces, and narrow and wide concentric circles. On the back, interlacing blue petal outlines radiate from the base.
History note: Unknown
F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926
Diameter: 22.3 cm
Height: 2.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, Frederick Leverton
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1520
-
1550
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, darker yellow, and manganese-brown) tin-glaze
Inscription present: circular
Inscription present: circular
Accession number: C.57-1927
Primary reference Number: 48648
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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