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Unidentified German pottery (Probably)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed, and painted in greyish-blue outlined in manganese-black. The porringer is circular with curved sides and two shell-shaped lugs. The outside is decorated in late Ming style with a Chinese figure in a landscape. Above the design there is a narrow manganese line below the rim, and belowit , three lines. Inside the bowl is the date '1682'
History note: Mr Freeman, Cambridge from whom bought in 1899 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS. Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 3 cm
Width: 10.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Production date:
dated
AD 1682
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt and purple from manganese)
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, the bowl probably thrown with applied moulded lugs, tin-glazed and painted in greyish-blue and manganese-purple
Accession number: C.1586-1928
Primary reference Number: 72265
Old object number: 1004
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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