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Dish with a seated cock on the cover
Production: The Ewer Factory
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, manganese-purple and red
Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, manganese-purple, and red. The oval dish has a slightly convex base, convex sides with a wavy stem of tendrils, flowers and buds in relief, and a shaped upper edge with three scallops and a small v-shape repeated round it, within which is a ledge on which the cover rests. The domed oval cover has a knob or handle in the form of a seated cock which is hollow underneath. The sides of the dish are yellowish-green, the stem and tendrils are painted in blue, the flowers in yellow and red, and the buds in red. The cover is green, and the cock is painted in all the colours.
History note: Mr Alexander, Salisbury from whom bought in 1892 or 1893 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Circa 1760 CE - 1800 CE
Lower Part Length 12.4 cm Width 10 cm
blue, green, yellow, manganese-purple and red
High-temperature colours
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Inscription present: the first letter is an L the other letters are of the same size but of mixed capitals and lower case letters
Accession number: C.2734 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 73991
Old object number: 44
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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