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Dish emblematic of Fecundity
Pottery: Unidentified Southwark Pottery
Tin-glazed and painted earthenware decorated with a reclining nude woman and five children emblematic of fecundity
Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange. Oval, with wide rim, and curved well. The rim is moulded in relief with alternately oval and circular depressions, separated by human masks, and vases of fruit and foliage, and the well with a reclining nude woman and five nude children, one of whom holds a dog. Behind the woman there is a green curtain and further to the left part of a building
History note: Probably bought at Christie's by Mr Stoner, London, from whom purchased for £25 in July 1907 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 6.5 cm
Length: 50.5 cm
Width: 40.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Mid#
Charles I
Circa
1635
CE
-
1640
CE
After a French lead-glazed earthenware dish, of a type traditionally attributed to Bernard Palissy (d. 1590), but probably made by his successors Jean Chipault (d. 1599) or Claude Berthémy at Avon near Fontainebleau.
The Pickleherring, and Montague Close potteries were operating when the earliest dated dish of this design was made, and by about 1636 the Rotherhithe pottery was also operating.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, and orange)
Front
buff
Earthenware
white
Tin-glaze
Press-moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange high temperature colours; the glaze is uneven and lumpy on the reverse
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1409-1928
Primary reference Number: 71941
Old object number: 2700
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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