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Pottery: Unidentified Nevers pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow and black inside with St Joseph leading the boy Christ by the hand and inscribed in the border 'Rd JosePh Arnaud recteur de notre dame de Bonnes nouvelles 1757
Pale buff earthenware, thrown, with applied handles and knob, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and black. The circular bowl has deep curved sides, and stands on a footring pierced by two suspension holes. On opposing sides there are heart-shaped horizontal handles each formed by two rolls of clay forming volutes. The slightly domed cover has a knob in the form of three volutes. Under the rim, the cover has a flange which fits inside the top of the bowl. The inside of the bowl is painted in blue and yellow with St Joseph leading the boy Christ by his hand, flanked by a flowering plant on the left and a church and a bush on the right. The scene is enclosed by a blue-edged band inscribed in black, 'Rd JosePh Arnaud recteur de notre dame de Bonnes nouvelles 1757'. Above is a border comprising four blue fan-shapes in panels, separating panels of diaper patterns, two painted in yellow and blue, and two in blue only. The exterior is painted with roughly drawn trees and rocks, and there is a blue band round the footring. The handles are spotted in blue, green, and yellow. The cover has a broad band matching the exterior of the bowl, within a wide blue band around the rim, and in the middle, concentric blue and green circles and blue plant motifs surrounding the knob.
History note: Paris, where purchased on 22 November 1904 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 15.4 cm
Width: 30 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter
Production date:
dated
AD 1757
: on purchase Dr Glaisher believed this to be a modern reproduction, but Rackham, 1935, catalogued it as of the date inscribed on it
Bowls and dishes decorated with the patron saints of the persons who owned them, here St Joseph for Reverend Joseph Arnaud, were made in large numbers in Nevers up to the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789. When Glaisher purchased this écuelle he believed it to be a modern reproduction, but Bernard Rackham considered that it was authentic in his Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection published in 1935.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow and black)
Footring
Diameter 10 cm
Bowl
Diameter 17.5 cm
Handles
bluish
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Accession number: C.2322 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 73361
Old object number: 2226
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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