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Dish with shells and foliage, a snake, two frogs and two lizards
Pottery: Pickleherring Pottery (Probably)
Earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and brown in imitation of a Palissy style 'rustic' dish.
Buff earthenware, press-moulded, with applied relief motifs tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and brown. Oval, with narrow rim, and curved sides, decorated in relief with plants, snail shells, two frogs, two lizards and a snake in the middle. On the reverse, painted in blue, the initials and date I/E : A/1638, with an elaborate loopy flourish below.
History note: An unidentified owner, described as 'local' from whom purchased for £18 by Mr H. Ernest Hyde, 48 Warstone Lane, Birmingham. Glaisher saw the dish for the first time when he visited Hyde in Birmingham on 7 April 1924. Hyde sold his collection to the dealer, Mr Stoner, of London. Stoner sold the dish to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher 16 April 1926 for £400.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 7.8 cm
Length: 45.1 cm
Width: 36 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, second quarter#
Charles I
Production date:
dated
AD 1638
: dated
The extraordinary dish was probably made at the Pickleherring pottery but potteries at Montague Close, and Rotherhithe were operating in Southwark at the date of manufacture. Only two more examples are known, one in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio (inv. no. 25.2), and one formerly in the Longridge Collection in the USA. The initials on this one may have been those of Edward Ireland and Ann Avers who married at St Margaret’s, West¬minster, on 17 January 1638.
The shape and decoration of the dish imitates a ‘rustic’ lead-glazed earthenware dish by the French potter, Bernard Palissy (d.1590) or by one of his followers, working in Fontainebleau, Paris, or Rouen. Claude Beaulat, a French merchant in London, whose wife, Anne, was a relative of the the potter, Jean Barthélémy of Rouen, seems to have specialized in importing ceramics which could account for the presence of ‘rustic’ dishes there to copy. (See Documentation Britton, 1991 and Denis-Dupuis 2019)
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, and brown)
off-white
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, with applied relief motifs, tin-glazed off-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and brown
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: followed by an elaborate loopy flourish
Accession number: C.1399-1928
Primary reference Number: 71918
Old object number: 4912
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: PD.40-1975
Accession Number: M.18-1980
Accession Number: C.3-1990
Accession Number: C.7-1929
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