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Flower vase: C.2305-1928

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Nevers pottery

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Description

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.

Notes

History note: Purchased in Rouen about 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 16.8 cm
Length: 24.5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

17th Century, second half
Louis XIV (1638-1715)
Circa 1670 CE - 1700 CE

Note

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)

School or Style

Oriental
Baroque

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt and manganese-purple)
Foot Diameter 10.3 cm
Holes

Materials used in production

buff appearing pinkish-orange under foot Earthenware
verypale blue Tin-glaze

Techniques used in production

Tin-glazing

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2305-1928
Primary reference Number: 73326
Old object number: 1236

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 March 2025

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

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