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Dish: Tulips and foliage
Unknown
(Pottery)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, pale green, yellow, and dark greyish-blue (perhaps manganese) with tulips and other flowers and foliage; border of blue and yellow circles and blue dashes
Dark buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, pale green, yellow, and dark greyish-blue (perhaps manganese); the reverse, slip-coated and covered with uneven greenish lead-glaze. Circular with slightly everted rim, and deep curved sides, standing on a footring. The front is decorated with tulips, spiral buds and foliage springing from a small low mound. Round the edge there is a blue band flanked by wider yellow bands, and blue dashes.
History note: Unidentified vendor at a sale in Bedford where bought by Mr Roe, a Cambridge dealer, from whom purchased on 22 November, 1904 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 36 cm
Height: 6.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Late 17th Century
Charles II
Circa
1670
CE
-
1685
CE
This charger was one of a pair
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, pale green, yellow and a dark blue or manganese-purple) Back composed of lead-glaze ( greenish and streaky) Front composed of tin-glaze
dark buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1494-1928
Primary reference Number: 72088
Old object number: 2190
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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Accession Number: C.1499-1928
Accession Number: C.2642B-1928
Accession Number: C.2636B-1928
Accession Number: C.1500-1928
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