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Factory:
Three Ash Barrels Factory
Proprietor of pottery:
Kamm, Gerrit Pietersz
Pale buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed, and painted in blue in Oriental style. The oviform vase has a short concave neck, and a domed cover with a rounded knob. On both the vase and cover there are four oval panels containing Chinese peonies, chrysanthemums and lotus-plants, separated by lotus-scroll ornament and cloud-scrolls. Round the shoulder and round the base of the vase there are horizontal borders of stylized foliage between narrow bands. The neck is decorated with lotus and scrolls between narrow bands. The knob is decorated with a multi-petalled flower. The upper part of the short concave neck is a modern restoration.
History note: Sale held near King's Lynn in 1899; unidentified shop owner in Yarmouth who sold it in 1899 probably for £8 to Mrs Kingsland, antique dealer of Croydon; sold by her on 12 September 1899 for £10 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. In his catalogue entry for the vase Glaisher noted that 'Mrs Kingsland gave me an amusing account of her difficulty in bringing it from Yarmouth to Croydon as passenger's luggage in a large barrel, and getting it on and off cabs.'
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 60.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Circa
1689
CE
-
1700
CE
The Three Ash Barrels Factory (Die Posteleyne Astonne) operated between 1655-1804. The mark indicates that the vase was made during the proprietorship of Gerrit Pietersz Kamm from 1679-1700.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Vase
Height 47.2 cm
Base
Width 24.5 cm
white
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Throwing
: Pale buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: G over the top of the vertical stroke of the K
Accession number: C.2500 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 73603
Old object number: 2505
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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