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Woman holding a Bowl for Salt
Pottery: Unidentified Westerwald pottery
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.
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
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 10.8 cm
Height: 18.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early#
Circa
1700
CE
-
1725
CE
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.
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Bowl
Diameter 6.4 cm
Lower Edge
Width 8 cm
grey Stoneware
Press-moulding
: Press-moulded grey salt-glazed stoneware with decoration in relief
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.2067-1928
Primary reference Number: 73068
Old object number: 4082
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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