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Plate: C.2300-1928

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Description

Tin-glazed earthenware plate painted in polychrome with a cock amidst flowering plants, and a border pattern

Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red and dark manganese-brown. The plate is circular with a sloping rim, deep curved sides and flat centre. The well is painted in all the colours with a cock, facing to the left, amidst stylized flowering plants. The rim is decorated with four curved rectangular panels of red trellis pattern separated by smaller panels with green, yellow and red strokes forming a fan shape, all between two dark manganese-brown bands. The reverse has three peg marks and is undecorated.

Notes

History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 22.5 cm
Height: 2.9 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

19th Century, first half
Circa 1800 - 1850

Note

This plate, although of a different shape, and pattern, is similar in colouring and style to another, C.2299-1928. It was attributed probably to the factory of Pierre Jacques de la Mettairie (1766-1849) in Rouen in Bernard Rackham's Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection (1935).On the proprietor's death the factory was continued by his widow, and her son by her first husband.

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, red, and dark manganese-brown derived from metallic oxides)
Surface composed of tin-glaze

Materials used in production

Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Moulding : Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and dark manganese-brown

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2300-1928
Primary reference Number: 73322
Old object number: 1513

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 8 April 2025

Associated departments & institutions

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

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