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Tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with fruit, an inscription, and border
Red earthenware, tin-glazed on the front and painted in blue, copper-green, yellow, and orange; the reverse covered with yellow lead-glaze over slip. Circular with deep curved sides, and a sloping rim, standing on a footring. In the middle there is a shield painted in blue with the initials and date S/R E/1634 and a blue border. Around it are large ochre-coloured fruits (apples or pomegranates) , a bunch of grapes and foliage. On the rim there is a repeating border of blue paired ovals with arrowheads between them between blue concentric circles
History note: Mr J. Corkill, New Chester Road, Rock Ferry, Cheshire from whom purchased for £18.10s.0d. on 16 August, 1918 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 36 cm
Diameter: 14 3/16 in
Height: 11.4 cm
Height: 4½ in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Second quarter of 17th century
Charles I
Production date:
dated
AD 1634
The bowl was probably made in Southwark, but might have been made in the Netherlands, where decoration of pomegranates, grapes and leaves was popular on pottery and tiles
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, and orange) Front composed of tin-glaze ( off-white) Back composed of lead-glaze ( yellowish)
red Earthenware
Inscription present: in shield-shaped outline
Accession number: C.1396-1928
Primary reference Number: 71915
Old object number: 4855
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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