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Dish with flat-fish cover
Production: Unidentified Delft factory
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and green and olive-green
Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white,, and painted in blue, green, and olive-green. The oval dish has deep almost straight sides, a wavy projecting lower edge, and two semi-circular projecting lugs at either end of the top. The cover is in the shape of a slightly convex flat fish with an open mouth which forms a spout. It has an oval ring underneath which fits inside the top of the lower part. The sides of the dish are painted in blue with wide stripes alternately decorated with criss-cross lines and four squares filled with vertical lines. The edge of the base has projecting short strokes and trefoils, and the lugs are blue overall. The cover is painted natiuralistically to resemble a fish.
History note: Lovett Collection; sold Puttick & Simpson, London, 6 March 1903; bought by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 7.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, second half#
Circa
1750
CE
-
1780
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue and green)
Base
Length 11.2 cm
Cover
Length 17.7 cm
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Accession number: C.2738 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 73996
Old object number: 1414
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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