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The Resting Cows
Production: Unidentified Delft factory
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue. Octagonal, painted on the front with a pastoral landscape with mountains in the distance and trees on the right. In the foreground there are two recumbent cows and one standing behind and to the right of them. On the extreme right there is a seated woman, and on the left a goat. The reverse is dated '1658'.
History note: Mr Rochelle Thomas, King Street, London from whom bought for £32 on 8 December 1924 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Beqiuest
Height: 23.9 cm
Width: 22.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Mid#
Production date:
dated
AD 1658
The landscape is after an etching, 'The Resting Cows', by Nicholas Berchem (1620-1683)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Accession number: C.2469-1928
Primary reference Number: 73559
Old object number: 4475
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "The Resting Cows" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73559 Accessed: 2024-11-17 08:16:58
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