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Production:
Two Ships Factory
Proprietor of factory:
Gaal, Jan
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue
Pale buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue. The vase is of ovoid hexagonal form with a short neck, and splayed foot. The sides are moulded with vertical oval panels, the shoulders are gadrooned, and the foot lightly fluted. The hexagonal domed cover has fluting radiating from the cone-shaped finial. The vertical panels are decorated in Chinese style with flowering plants, and above on the shoulder, and below above the foot there are shaped panels containing a flowering plant. The short neck and the foot have borders of scrolls. The cover is decorated with a plant in each of four panels reserved in a blue ground, and the finial is decorated wot resemble a pine cone. The underside of the base is painted with the factory mark 'JG' underlined over '20'.
History note: Freethorpe Hall, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk; Mr J. Johnson, 4, Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, from whom bought for £1.5.0. on 4 December1893 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 27.5 cm
Width: 12.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early
Circa
1707
CE
-
1727
CE
The mark indicates that the vase was made during the proprietorship of De Tree Scheepjes (the Two Ships Factory) during the directorship of Jan Gaal, 1707-25 or his widow, Gaal-van der Plank, 1725-7.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Vase
Height 17.6 cm
Foot
Width 7.4 cm
Finial
Moulding
: Pale buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: dot over the J
Accession number: C.2437 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 73513
Old object number: 128
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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