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Production: Unidentified Nevers pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and manganese-purple with Oriental flowers
Pale buff earthenware, pierced, tin-glazed and painted in blue and manganese-purple. The vase is lamp-shaped (or boat-shaped) with flaring mouths at either end and in the middle, and twelve holes pierced in the top to take the flower stems. The body is supported on a slightly conical circular foot and short stem. The sides are decorated with arrangements of Oriental style flowers and foliage, and on each end there is an oval panel containing a plant with two flowers surrounded by borders of wavy-edged leaves. The central spout is decorated with elongated leaves between pairs of manganese horizontal bands. The top of the foot is decorated with leaves radiating from the stem, with two manganese-purple bands above them, and two encircling the outer edge.
History note: Purchased in Rouen about 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 16.8 cm
Length: 24.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, second half
Louis XIV (1638-1715)
Circa
1670
CE
-
1700
CE
The shape of the lamp is rather like an incense-burner or a Roman lamp. Two examples decorated in white with flowers on a dark blue tin glaze are in the Musée national de la Céramique at Sèvres (MNC 23 496 and 23 497)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt and manganese-purple)
Foot
Diameter 10.3 cm
Holes
buff appearing pinkish-orange under foot
Earthenware
verypale blue
Tin-glaze
Accession number: C.2305-1928
Primary reference Number: 73326
Old object number: 1236
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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