Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Production:
Unidentified Westerwald pottery
Entities
Categories
Description
Buff stoneware, thrown, with applied handle (replaced), and incised and applied moulded relief decoration, painted in cobalt-blue and manganese-purple, and salt-glazed
Buff salt-glazed stoneware with applied relief decoration painted in cobalt-blue and manganese-purple
Buff stoneware, thrown, with applied handle (replaced), incised and applied moulded relief decoration, painted in cobalt-blue and manganese-purple, and salt-glazed. The jug is pear-shaped with a solid disk base and a loop handle. It is decorated on the front with a large and elaborate rosette with heart-shaped outermost petals, of which the inner background is painted blue. On either side of it is a plant with incised stems and a petalled flower at the top. On the side nearest to the handle, each of the plants has five shoots bearing alternately a carnation or pink and a beaded bud. These are paired with four shoots on the side next to the large rosette, but the fifth on each curves to right or left to meet in a large petalled flower above the rosette. The flowers and buds are all painted blue, and the background extending as far as the area below the handle is manganese-purple. The replacement handle is blue.
Notes
History note: Professor Sir James Dewar, FRS (1842–1923), 1 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge; his sale, Puttick & Simpson’s at the house, 26-27 May 1924, first day, part of lot 112; bought by Stanley Woolstan on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS (1848–1928), Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 16.3 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
17th Century, Late
Circa
1680
-
1700
School or Style
Baroque
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( cobalt-blue and manganese-purple)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Base
Diameter 0.2 cm
Body
Materials used in production
buff
Stoneware
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.2046-1928
Primary reference Number: 73046
Old object number: 4419
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 2 September 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
