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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in polychrome under a colourless glaze
Fritware, probably mould made, painted in red slip, blue, black and emerald green under a colourless glaze
Shape: cylindrical body tampering slightly toward a plain rim, sits on a low foot ring. A flat angular handle is fixed along the length of the body.
Exterior: below the rim and above the foot ring matching friezes of half rosettes, dotted with red and reserved in blue. On the body, green and black cypress trees are surrounded by polychrome floral sprays including carnations and prunus branches. The handle is decorated with blue lines. Glaze extends over the body except for the rim of the foot ring.
Interior: undecorated except for glaze.
History note: Bought from the dealer Alfred Spero, 82 Grosvenor Street, London, W1 for £110
Given by The Friends of The Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 22 cm
Weight: 731 g
Width: 17 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: Given (1950) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Third quarter of 16th century
Circa
1565
CE
-
Circa
1575
CE
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( red slip, blue, black and emerald green)
Rim
Diameter 12.6 cm
Base
Diameter 12.8 cm
colourless, extends over the body except for the rim of the foot ring
Glaze
Fritware
Moulding
: Fritware, probably mould made, painted in red slip, blue, black and emerald green under a colourless glaze
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.1-1950
Primary reference Number: 71511
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) "Tankard" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71511 Accessed: 2023-06-04 09:45:19
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|title=Tankard
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-04 09:45:19|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: GR.14.1936
Accession Number: M.56-1961
Accession Number: C.146-2010
Accession Number: GR.151e.1907
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