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Production: Unidentified
Earthenware, pierced, tin-glazed and painted in blue and manganese-purple. In the form of a square pedestal with projecting upper and lower edges, sides pierced with an openwork four-petalled flower, and in the top a circular depression for the salt. The lower edge is painted in blue with a zig-zag and spot border, and the upper edge with a row of blue spots between manganese-purple lines. The angles of the top are each painted with a floral spray, and there is a flowerhead in the salt depression surrounded by a manganese circle between two wider blue circles. .
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century#
Circa
1620
CE
-
1700
CE
Attributed to Lambeth by Rackham, buit possibly made in Liguria in Italy
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Sides
Accession number: C.1454-1928
Primary reference Number: 72027
Old object number: 1076
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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