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Production:
Greek A Factory
Proprietor of factory:
Kool, Jacob van der
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with Chinese figures, leaves and scrolls
Pale buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue. The vase is of square baluster form with incurved corners, a straight-sided neck, and a slightly flaring base which is concave underneath. The sides are decorated with vertical panels, two containing a Chinese lady and two, a standing Chinese man holding a scroll painted with the head and shoulders of a man, all in garden settings. Below is a border of stylized leaves pointing downwards reserved in a blue ground. Above on the shoulder there are four circular reserves containing a leaf and wavy ribbons, and smaller reserves containing scrolls reserved in a blue ground. The neck is decorated with scrolls and inverted V motifs.
History note: Staal's, London, from whom purchased in October 1903 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 24.6 cm
Width: 9.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, second quarter#
Circa
1722
-
1757
The mark indicates that this vase was made at the Greek A factory during the proprietorship of Jacob van der Kool from 1722 until his death in 1733 or of his widow, Cornelia van Willigen from 1733 to 1757.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Base
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: joined and with dot over I
Accession number: C.2429-1928
Primary reference Number: 73502
Old object number: 2119
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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