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Dish: Tulips and Foliage
Pottery:
Pickleherring Pottery
(Possibly)
Proprietor of pottery:
Wilhelm, Christian
Pottery:
Montague Close Pottery
(Possibly)
Proprietor of pottery:
Prynn, Jacob
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, pale green, yellow, orange, and manganse-purple with a floral design and inscription `RICHARD KEY 1628'; reverse lead-glazed
Reddish-buff earthenware tin-glazed off-white on the front and painted in blue, pale green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple; the reverse covered with translucent yellowish lead-glaze. Circular with a sloping rim, and wide shallow curved sides, standing on a footring. The front is decorated with three yellow tulips and two blue 'Tudor roses' on curving stems of blue foliage. On the rim there are waving stems of green foliage with orange buds at intervals, broken by a rectangular panel outlined in blue and inscribed 'RICHARD KEY 1628'. On the reverse the initials W R B (?) and a symbol are written faintly in blue underglaze.
History note: Bought by the vendor in a village in Surrey where it had been for some generations in a cottage and was used as a pudding dish for special occasions such as Christmas; H. J. Montgomerie Bell, Barn House, South Newington, Banbury, Oxfordshire; placed for sale with Mr Appleton of Walford and Sporter, Oxford, where bought on 15 November 1913 for £50 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 33.4 cm
Height: 6.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Early#
James II
Production date:
dated
AD 1628
At the date of production the dish could have been made either at the Pickleherring pottery or the Montague Close pottery in Southwark
The decoration was probably inspired by pottery with floral decoration from Isnik in Turkey.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, pale green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
( pinkish-white)
Back
composed of
lead-glaze
( translucent yellow)
reddish buff with red inclusions Earthenware
Inscription present: B not clear
Accession number: C.1395-1928
Primary reference Number: 71914
Old object number: 4847
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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