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Bowl: C.11-1952

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Puente pottery

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Description

Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed cream, and painted in blue, green, yellow, ochre, and manganese. Circular with deep sides, and everted rim, standing on a low footring. The inside is decorated with a central medallion containing a stylized plant, surrounded by yellow and manganese-brown concentric circles, outside which are pairs of ochre curved strokes alternating with a parti-coloured green and yellow leaf. The upper part of the sides are decorated with bands of blue, yellow, ochre and manganese-purple. The exterior is decorated with a wide border of green pyramidal motifs with stylized birds (?) between them, with two manganese-brown bands above and below, and below that a yellow and an ochre band and two manganese-brown bands.

Notes

History note: Unknown before Lady St John Hope (1869-1952)

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Lady St John Hope

Measurements and weight

Height: 14.3 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1952-08-02) by St John Hope, Lady

Dating

18th Century, second half
1750 CE - 1800 CE

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple)
Rim Diameter 32.8 cm

Materials used in production

except footrim; cream Tin-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Tin-glazing
Throwing

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.11-1952
Primary reference Number: 71354

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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