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Dish decorated with grotesques
Pottery: Pickleherring Pottery (Probably)
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.
History note: Francis Bennett-Goldney, Abbotts Barton, Canterbury ; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 7.5 cm
Width: 39 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Mid#
Charles I
Production date:
dated
AD 1649
: dated
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.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, pale green, yellow, brown, and manganese-purple)
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Press-moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, pale green, yellow, brown, and manganese-purple
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1408-1928
Primary reference Number: 71940
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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