Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Production:
Unidentified Friesland factory
(Possibly)
Entities
Categories
Description
Buff earthenware, thickly potted, the front tin-glazed, and painted in blue, yellow and manganese-purple; the reverse covered with cloudy lead-glaze containing some tin, and tinged with green in the middle. Circular with deep sloping sides and curved centre, standing on a wide shallow footring. The front is decorated with a woman holding in her right hand a bud or seed head on a stalk. She has long curling hair, and wears a dress with a low neckline, pointed bodice and stomacher, voluminous sleeves, and a wide striped and spotted skirt. Round the rim there are concentric circles; narrow blue, wide yellow, two narrow blue and a wide yellow. There are three spur marks in the centre.
Notes
History note: Mrs M.L. Clarke, Toronto; Christie's, 5 April 1934, Catalogue of the Collection of English Pottery and Porcelain and Miniatures formed by Mrs M.L. Clarke Deceased late of Toronto, Canada, p. 10, part of lot 66; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1991
Legal notes
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Measurements and weight
34.5
Height: 8.2 cm
At the moment, this record does not display units or type of
measurements. We will rectify this as soon as possible.
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1991-04-29)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Dating
17th Century, Late - 18th century, Early
Circa
1690
-
1705
School or Style
Baroque
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high temperature colour
( blue, yellow and manganese-purple derived from metallic oxides)
Back
composed of
lead-glaze
( probably mixed with some tin-glaze producing a cloudy effect)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Footring
Diameter 12.8 cm
Reverse
Materials used in production
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Throwing (pottery technique)
: Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed on the front and painted in blue, yellow and manganese-purple, the reverse, probably slip-coated and covered with a lead-glaze clouded with tin and slightly green in and around the footring
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular green
- Text: SOT
- Location: On back
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Label
Inscription present: circular stick-on label with serrated edge
- Text: 531
- Location: On reverse
- Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.315-1991
Primary reference Number: 74431
Packing number: EURCER 122
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
