Bottle: C.2326-1928

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown

Entities

• Bottle

Categories

• Tin-glazed earthenware
• French faïence

Description

Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple with agricultural implements, a young peasant woman carrying a pan and a trough, a man carrying a hulot, two naked boys carousing beside wine barrels, and the name and date C. Mornand. 1783.'

Earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple. The bottle is of double gourd shape with a short neck and narrow mouth. The upper part is decorated with a woman in profile, walking to the left, carrying a saucepan with a spoon in it in her left hand and balancing a trough on her head. On either side of her there is a flowering plant, and further round, a group of agricultural implements - a spade, fork, hook or dibber, and a harrow. On the lower part, two naked boys are carousing between flowering plants. One sits on a barrel holding a wine glass in his right hand and a flask in his left; the other leans against an upright barrel on which are a mug and a flask. Above and to the left, is the name and date, 'C. Mornand. 1783.' On the other side a young peasant is walking to the left holding a hulot under his left arm with flowering plants in front of him and behind him. Below, round the base there are blue and manganese-purple bands. On the shoulder above the figures is a border of blue spots and stylized buds between pairs of leaves, three narrow manganese bands and a broad blue band. On the upper part there are two manganese bands at the bottom, and at the top a wavy blue band close to a manganese band, a space and then, on the neck, two manganese bands, a wide blue band and another manganese band ,

Notes

History note: Purchased in Geneva in September 1902 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

18th Century, Late
Louis XVI
Production date: dated AD 1783

School or Style

Rococo