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Production:
Unidentified Rouen pottery
Production:
Febvrier-Boussemart Faïence Factory
(Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware dish painted in blue with lambrequins
Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue. Circular with an everted rim moulded with small gadroons, projecting from a ridge, deep curved sides with a sloping slightly concave zone at the top, and an almost flat base. There are three spur marks on the underside of the rim. In the centre there is a six sided medallion formed by scrolls and stylized foliage reserved in a blue ground, and at the top of the sides, a border of lambrequins (broderies). The small gadroons on the rim each have a blue spot radiating from a line.
History note: Unknown before Miss Hermia Durham
Given by Miss Hermia Durham
Diameter: 28.2 cm
Height: 4.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1932-01-07) by Durham, Hermia, Miss
18th Century, Early#
Circa
1700
CE
-
1725
CE
This dish was accessioned as from Rouen, but might perhaps have come from Lille. This type of decoration is referred to in France as 'broderies' or 'au lambrequin'.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt oxide)
Moulding
: Pale buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed and painted in blue on the front
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1-1932
Primary reference Number: 71506
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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