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Plate: C.2175-1928

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Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Maker(s)

Maker: Unidentified Montelupo pottery

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Description

Earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides; the reverse tinged with green; the base partially glazed. Painted in greyish-blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese.
Shape 67 with warped rim.
Four stems, each bearing a large leaf and two fruits, curve over the surface with smaller leaves and spirals in the spaces. The rim is bordered by concentric bands: a broad blue and three narrow manganese, a blue and a reserved white with blue dashes over them, two manganese, and a green. The back is decorated with three pale manganese concentric bands situated midway across the sides.

Notes

History note: Purchased in *Craon ? Alley, nearly opposite Christie's*, London, for 13s.0d. on 19 March 1924 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 25.4 cm
Height: 5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

17th Century
Circa 1600 CE - 1700 CE

Note

Dishes decorated with leaves and fruit (see also C.2176-1928, C.193-1991 and C.9-1914) are typical of the attractive but summarily painted pottery made in Montelupo for a popular market during the seventeenth century.

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( in greyish-blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese)

Materials used in production

Tin-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides; the reverse tinged with green; the base partially glazed. Painted in greyish-blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese.

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2175-1928
Primary reference Number: 73174
Old object number: 4363

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 13 August 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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