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Dish: La Fecondité
Translated as: Fecundity
Pottery: Unidentified Southwark Pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, yellow, dull orange and manganese-purple with a scene emblematic of Fecundity and a border of grotesques
Reddish-buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in blue, yellow, dull orange, and manganese-purple. Circular with a wide slightly sloping rim, shallow sides and flat centre, standing on a footring, pierced by two holes. The middle is decorated with a reclining woman suckling a child and two others playing pick-a-back, in a room with a tiled floor and lattice window. The rim is encircled by a wide border of grotesques and foliage. On the back, within the footring, are the initials and date ‘S/PA/1675'.
History note: Mr Stoner, 93/4 York Street, Westminster, from whom bought in December 1898 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 39.8 cm
Height: 6.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Charles II
Production date:
dated
AD 1675
The dish was made in London, probably at one of the Southwark potteries.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple)
reddish-buff
Earthenware
white
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Reddish-buff earthenware moulded, tin-glazed on both sides and painted in blue, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1434-1928
Primary reference Number: 71997
Old object number: 956
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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