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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 ,
History note: Purchased in Geneva in September 1902 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 10.5 cm
Height: 17 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
Louis XVI
Production date:
dated
AD 1783
Decoration
composed of
high temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, manganese-purple from metallic oxides)
Surface Except Base
composed of
tin-glaze
Base
Diameter 6.9 cm
Throwing (pottery technique) : Earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple high temperature colours
Accession number: C.2326-1928
Primary reference Number: 73365
Old object number: 1409
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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