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Sugar bowl: C.1887 & A-1928

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Langnau potter

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Description

Three-legged slipware bowl and cover with six scrolls and a bird on top, decorated with cream and brown slip, and green and yellow under lead glaze

Earthenware, thrown, with applied modelled decoration in relief, coated with cream slip on the interior of the bowl and underside of the cover and finial, and with brown on the exterior of the bowl and cover, and painted in white, green, and yellow under lead-glaze. The bulbous bowl stands on three small feet with reliefs of foliage above them, and between them, applied twisted volutes. The cover is slightly domed with a wide border, and has on top a handle in the form of six volutes radiating from a shallow dish in which is perched a bird. The areas of brown ground are scattered with small flower heads painted in cream and yellow, and the volutes on the cover are alternately green and yellow.

Notes

History note: Mrs Born-Straub, wife of Samuel Born-Straub (1845-1914) antique dealer in Thun, from whom bought in September 1903 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 16 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, Late
Circa 1790 - 1810

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of oxide colours ( green and yellow) slip ( white)
Cover Diameter 12.8 cm
Bowl Width 12.7 cm

Materials used in production

red Earthenware
Lead-glaze

Techniques used in production

Throwing

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: 4
  • Location: Inside on base of bowl, and on underside of middle of cover
  • Method of creation: Incised
  • Type: Number

Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with dark blue line on left and top edge, and trefoil leaf motif in top two corners; the r of Septr is raised

  • Text: Langnau/sugar basin/on 3 feet/brown ground/scrolls & bird on top./Bought at Thun/Septr 1903
  • Location: On base of inside of bowl
  • Method of creation: Hand written in black ink
  • Type: Label

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1887 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 72810
Old object number: 1826

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 September 2025

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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