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Dish decorated with grotesques: C.1408-1928

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Object information

Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Titles

Dish decorated with grotesques

Maker(s)

Pottery: Pickleherring Pottery (Probably)

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Description

Earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, pale green, yellow, brown, and manganese-purple. Circular with a wavy rim divided into sixteen alternately large and small lobes, and a deep well which is convex in the middle. Decorated in the middle with two putti holding a wreath over the head of a winged semi-human monster holding a shield-shaped cartouche inscribed B/EM/1649. The rest of the surface is decorated with grotesques.

Notes

History note: Francis Bennett-Goldney, Abbotts Barton, Canterbury ; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 7.5 cm
Width: 39 cm

Relative size of this object

39 cm7.5 cm What does this represent?

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Place(s) associated

  • Southwark ⪼ Surrey ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

Mid 17th century
Charles I
Production date: dated AD 1649 : dated

Note

The dish was probably made at the Pickleherring pottery but potteries at Montague Close, and Rotherhithe were operating in Southwark at the date of manufacture.

The form was derived from a metalwork prototype. The decoration was inspired by Urbino-style grotesques on Italian or Netherlandish maiolica.

School or Style

Mannerist

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, pale green, yellow, brown, and manganese-purple)

Materials used in production

buff Earthenware
Tin-glaze

Techniques used in production

Press-moulding : Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, pale green, yellow, brown, and manganese-purple
Tin-glazing

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: B/E M/1649
  • Location: On the front in the middle
  • Method of creation: Painted
  • Type: Inscription

References and bibliographic entries

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1408-1928
Primary reference Number: 71940
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 11 August 2016 Last processed: Tuesday 14 February 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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