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Basin: C.1948 & A-1928

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Heimberg potter

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Description

Standing bowl and cover, slip-coated and decorated with beading, incising and painting in reddish-brown, blue, green, and yellow under lead-glaze

Dark ochre-coloured earthenware, thrown in two parts, coated with cream slip overall, decorated with applied ornament in relief, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and dark ochre, and manganese under lead-glaze. The circular bowl has deep curved sides and is supported on a short stem rising from a circular foot with a concave top. The cover has a narrow border, a high dome, and above that a circular platform with a beaded edge, on which is perched a small bird. The sides of the bowl are decorated with four swags, of alternately green and yellow beads, and with incised and painted plant motifs between them. Within the swags, is a geometrical pattern of three diamond-shapes filled with blue spots over incised horizontal lines, and with two green spots above and below. The cover is decorated with the same design but inverted, and the beads round the edge of the bird's platform are painted in blue.

Notes

History note: Mrs Born-Straub, Thun, from whom purchased in Sept 1903 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambidge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 22.8 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow,)
Surface composed of slip ( cream, ochre) lead-glaze
Cover Diameter 15.2 cm
Foot Diameter 8.8 cm
Body And Cover
Finial
Relief Decoration

Materials used in production

Earthenware

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1948 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 72899
Old object number: 1823

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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 14 October 2025

Associated departments & institutions

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

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