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Factory: Meissen Porcelain Factory
Hard-paste porcelain, painted overglaze in blue, pale pink, and brownish-red enamels. A model of a late seventeenth century style church with an oblong nave with a door and three windows on one side, and three windows on the other side; a sloping roof with three dormer window on each side; a semi-octagonal apse with three windows on the east end; and at the west end, a tower with an octagonal open belfry and a ball finial (replacement).The tower has a circular opening on one side and a rectangular opening on the other (for the insertion of a watch?). The belfry and finial are blue, the roof is reddish-brown, and the frames of the windows, angles, and lower edge are pink.
History note: Basnett (or Barnett) Bros. 35 Brook Street, Bond Street, London, from whom purchased for £6 on 12 November 1928 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 28 cm
Length: 20.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
Circa
1745
-
1765
Identified as Dresden when purchased in 1928, but described as of undetermined origin in Rackham's Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection in 1935. The church resembles two Meissen models of churches in late seventeenth century style, one without windows in the roof, and one with. The original model was made by Johann Gottlieb Ehder in 1743 for Heinrich Graf von Brühl.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( pink, brownish-red, blue)
Base
Length 19.5 cm
Width 9 cm
Roof
Width 9.5 cm
Visible Surface
clear
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Moulding : Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted in blue, pale pink, and brownish-red enamels.
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label with cut corners and black line round the edge
Accession number: C.3198-1928
Primary reference Number: 74487
Old object number: 5108
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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