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Production: Unidentified Nevers pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and manganese-purple with Oriental flowers
Buff earthenware, pierced, tin-glazed and painted in blue and manganese-purple. The vase is lamp-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. 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 has a border of leaves between pairs of manganese-purple bands.
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 cm
Length: 24.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Second half of 17th century
Louis XIV (1638-1715)
1650
CE
-
1700
CE
The shape of the lamp is rather like an incense-burner or a Roman lamp
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt and manganese-purple)
Foot
Diameter 10.5 cm
Holes
buff appearing pink under foot
Earthenware
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
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Flower vase" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73326 Accessed: 2023-06-11 01:59:43
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Accession Number: C.15-2008
Accession Number: O.117 & A-1946
Accession Number: C.91-1928
Accession Number: C.1935-1928
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