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Dish: C.2405-1928

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Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

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Production: Unknown

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Description

Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange with a heraldic rose surrounded by slanting leaves and fruits, and blue dashes on the edge

Dark buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front, and painted in blue, green, yellow and orange; the reverse, is unevenly lead-glazed green. Circular with deep curved sides and everted rim, standing on a footring pierced by a suspension hole. In the middle is a yellow and orange heraldic rose in a medallion framed by a yellow and three concentric blue circles, surrounded by serrated leaves forming a six-pointed star with stylized fruit in the spaces. The rim is decorated with three narrow blue bands and slanting blue dashes over a broad yellow band. There are three spur marks near the rose.

Notes

History note: Imported from Holland by Fresco's, London, shortly before they sold it about 1892 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 5.5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Second quarter of 17th century
Circa 1625 CE - 1650 CE

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow and orange derived from metallic oxides)
Back composed of lead-glaze ( greenish)
Front composed of tin-glaze
Whoe Diameter 32.4 cm

Materials used in production

Earthenware

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2405-1928
Primary reference Number: 73457
Old object number: 23

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 29 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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