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Production: Unidentified Delft factory
Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed greyish-blue and painted in polychrome
Buff earthenware, moulded in two parts (possibly three), tin-glazed pale greyish-blue, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple. The oval pot has straight sides which curve inwards towards the top, and are decorated in relief on both sides with a design of plants, with leaves and buds. Inside the top there is a ledge on which the cover rests. On the cover there is a recumbent cow, surrounded by a low bank decorated with plants in relief. The underside is unglazed and has a central hole. The sides of the pot and the edge of the cover are coloured green, and the plants are picked out in blue, yellow and red. The cow has blue features, a yellow nose, and a purple tail. It has a blue and yellow garland round its neck, and a polychrome floral spray across its back. On the underside there are four blue spots.
History note: Lovett Collection; Puttick & Simpson, London, 6 March 1903, sale of Lovett collection, part of lot 258 bought with another item for £5.5s.0d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 11 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1750
CE
-
1775
CE
The cow on the cover suggests that this pot was probably intended to be used for butter
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple)
Dish
Length 14.5 cm
Width 10.2 cm
buff
Earthenware
pale greyish-blue, except for underside of cover
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded in parts, tin-glazed pale gryish-blue, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple metallic oxide colours
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.2733 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 73990
Old object number: 1416
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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