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Potter: Unknown
Firtware painted in blue and turquoise under a colourless glaze
Fritware, mould made, painted in blue and turquoise under a colourless glaze.
Shape: segmental bowl with a flange rim, sits on a low, wide foot ring
Interior: all decoration is reserved in blue. On the rim a repeating floral pattern, with central turquoise central dot, is surrounded by ‘tadpole’ leaves. On the cavetto, a frieze of oval lobbed medallions, containing turquoise lozenges with blue flowers, are framed above and below by rosettes. In the roundel, echoing the cavetto, identical turquoise lozenges and rosettes radiate from a central floral spray reserved in turquoise within a lobbed circular medallion.
Exterior: all decoration is painted in blue which has run slightly onto the surrounding white ground. On the rim, a bracketed blue line, while on the body scrolling floral sprays and ‘tadpole’ leaves are painted in a sketchy style.
History note: From the Joseph Dixon Collection, sold at Christie’s, 16th-17th March, 1911, lot 73, possibly sold for 120gs to Riches
Height: 6.5 cm
Weight: 1341 g
Width: 33.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950-06-27) by Riches, Thomas Henry
16th Century, Early-Mid
Circa
1535
CE
-
Circa
1545
CE
Potter's style
Base
Diameter 18.7 cm
Rim
Diameter 33.2 cm
blue, turquoise
Pigment
colourless, covers the exterior except for the rim of the foot ring
Glaze
Fritware
Moulding
: Fritware, mould made, painted in blue and turquoise under a colourless glaze
Painting underglaze
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.26-1950
Primary reference Number: 73802
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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