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Factory: Ferniani Factory (Perhaps)
Maiolica tray, painted in polychrome, with a man on one knee supporting a vase of flowers, surrounded by an elaborate frame of scrolls.
Tray. Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in dark blue, pale blue, green, yellowish-green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple, with a powdered manganese border.
Rectangular with rounded corners, shaped pie-crust edge and, at each end, a handle composed of a cabochon between scrolls.
In the middle, a man supporting a vase of flowers on his shoulders, crouches on one knee on a pedestal, surrounded by an elaborate bérainesque frame of scrolls with a canopy at the top. Around this is a similar border comprising scrolls, foliage and diapered panels. The pie-crust border is mottled with manganese and has a narrow blue line round its lower edge. The handles are mottled in manganese on the outside, and painted in green, blue and yellow on the cabochons and scrolls on the inside.
History note: Mr Phillips, Hitchin; The Rev. G.A. Schneider, MA, from whom purchased on 10 February 1908 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher * for £6 (MS Cat. 2880).
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 9.5 cm
Length: 51.5 cm
Width: 41.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
Circa
1770
CE
-
1790
CE
The attribution to the Ferniani Factory is uncertain
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( in dark blue, pale blue, green, yellowish-green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple)
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in dark blue, pale blue, green, yellowish-green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple, with a powdered manganese border.
Accession number: C.2189-1928
Primary reference Number: 73181
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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