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Factory:
Metal Pot Factory
Proprietor:
Eenhoorn, Lambertus van
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with floral sprays
Earthenware, moulded and turned, tin-glazed and painted in blue. In the form of a pillar with projecting drip pan at the top, and a similar projection at its base, rising from a domed foot. The entire surface is spirally gadrooned. The stem is decorated with alternating spiral stripes of floral sprays and chains reserved in a blue ground. The gadroons on the drip pan, lower projection, and the foot are decorated with alternating different floral designs.
History note: Un unidentified Sotheby's sale c. 1900; bought with other items by Mr Aked of Green Street, Leicester Square; sold on receipt of a £1 deposit to an unidentified buyer, but sale not completed; bought from S.E. Mossel of Amsterdam, at 6 Manette Street, Charing Cross Road, London, for £10 on 9 November, 1904 by DrJ.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
William III and Mary II
Circa
1691
CE
-
1700
CE
The mark has also been attributed to Louwijs Victoorsz who ran the Double Jug factory (1688-1713), but is more likely to be that of Lambertus van Eenhoorn of the Metal Pot. A pair of comparable candlesticks, with the same monogram is at the Palace of Het Loo, in the Netherlands (see Documentation).
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Part
Accession number: C.2434-1928
Primary reference Number: 73510
Old object number: 1153
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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