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Dish with flat-fish cover: C.2738 & A-1928

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Dish with flat-fish cover

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Delft factory

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Description

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.

Notes

History note: Lovett Collection; sold Puttick & Simpson, London, 6 March 1903; bought by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 7.7 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, second half
Circa 1750 CE - 1780 CE

School or Style

Rococo

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue and green)
Base Length 11.2 cm
Cover Length 17.7 cm

Materials used in production

bluish-white Tin-glaze
buff Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Tin-glazing
Moulding

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2738 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 73996
Old object number: 1414

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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