IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73382
accession number:	C.2343-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 23 September 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware, moulded, with applied footring pierced by two holes, tin-glazed, and painted in blue. The dish is circular with a wavy six-sided riim and shallow sides, standing on a straight-sided footring. The front is decorated with a symmetrical design in the style of Bérain, comprising a nude putto on a pedestal, flanked by female terminal figures linked by swags of cloth, and ewers on pedestals, with below the putto, a vase filled with fruit and foliage linked by scrolling foliage to the pedestals supporting the ewers.  Round the outer edge there is narrow border of small flowers and stylized foliage, and a broad blue line. Three peg marks on rim at 12, 4, and 8 o'clock.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue in the style of Bérain
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bought on 10 November 1899 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73382





TECHNIQUES
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buff earthenware, moulded, with applied footring, pierced by two holes, tin-glazed overall, and painted in blue
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: French faïence

DATING
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creation date:	1715 - 1725
creation date earliest:	1715
creation date latest:	1725
culture:	18th Century, Early

CREATORS
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maker: Héraud-Leroy factory
maker: Clerissy factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 27.3

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 3



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Faïences françaises XVIe-XVIIIe siècles
Faïence et porcelaine de Marseille XVIIe - XVIIIe siècles. Collections du musée de la Faïence de Marseille
Ceramica CH, Inventaire National de la Céramique dans les Collections Publiques Suisses (1500-1950), Vaud III/I
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