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Woman holding a Bowl for Salt: C.2067-1928

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Object information

Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Titles

Woman holding a Bowl for Salt

Maker(s)

Pottery: Unidentified Westerwald pottery

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Description

Grey stoneware, press-moulded and salt-glazed. Thr elegantly-dressed standing woman holds a shallow circular bowl in front of her with both hands. She wears a high lace cap, a tight-waisted bodice with a stomacher, and sleeves and cuffs decorated with rosettes, and a wide conical skirt decorated in relief with vertical bands of closely set leaves, trailing stems of flowers, and trellis diaper pattern, and at the back, with panels of different closely set leaves. The edge of her bowl has a border of small impressed circles.

Notes

History note: Puttick & Simpson, 21 July 1916, part of lot 136; sold for £13.10s to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Depth: 10.8 cm
Height: 18.3 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

18th Century, Early#
Circa 1700 CE - 1725 CE

Note

This figure and its male companion (C.2066-1928) who holds a candle socket may have been used when their owner was writing, or at table. The bowl may have held salt, or possibly sand. Comparable figures of a man and woman are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, respectively, C. 109-1831 and C.110-1931, and the Musée de la Renaissance, Écouen, inv. E. Cl. 1709a and E.Cl. 1709b.

School or Style

Baroque

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Surface composed of salt-glaze
Bowl Diameter 6.4 cm
Lower Edge Width 8 cm

Materials used in production

grey Stoneware

Techniques used in production

Press-moulding : Press-moulded grey salt-glazed stoneware with decoration in relief
Salt-glazing

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2067-1928
Primary reference Number: 73068
Old object number: 4082
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023 Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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