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Dish: Figures emblematic of Fecundity
Pottery: Pickleherring Pottery (Probably)
Oval dish centre of tin-glazed and painted earthenware decorated in relief with a nude woman and five children emblematic of fecundity
Reddish-buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange, with a scene emblematic of fecundity. A reclining nude woman with five putti, one holding a dog over his shoulder surrounded by a border. The back painted in blue withthe initials and date 'I/EA/1638'. The border and rim have been removed.
History note: Mr George Stoner, London, from whom purchased on 28 September 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge, with another (no longer in the collection) for £85.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 4.5 cm
Length: 37.8 cm
Width: 28.8 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: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Second quarter of 17th century
Charles I
Production date:
dated
AD 1638
: dated
Pickleherring, Montague Close, and Rotherhithe potteries were operating in Southwark at the date of manufacture. Of these Pickleherring pottery seems most likely.
Front
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, orange)
Back
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue)
Decoration
buff
Earthenware
off-white
Tin-glaze
Press-moulding
: Reddish-buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1398-1928
Primary reference Number: 71917
Old object number: 4606
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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