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Jar: C.4-1932

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown (Perhaps)

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Description

Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange with parrots amid scrolling stems bearing pears or quinces and berries

Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white on the interior and exterior; rim and base unglazed. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange. Globular body with very short neck and flat base.The main field is decorated with five parrots amidst coiling leafy stems bearing five groups of three, and five single, quinces or pears, and berries. Round the lower part, reading from top to bottom: (a) a green horizontal band between wide and narrow blue bands; (b) an invected orange band and another above with trefoils on the points; and (c) a narrow and a wide horizontal blue band. Round the neck, reading from bottom to top, (a), (b), and a narrow blue band and a green band between broad blue bands.

Notes

History note: Alfred Spero, London.

Legal notes

Purchased with the Glaisher Fund

Measurements and weight

Height: 33.9 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Venice ⪼ The Veneto ⪼ Italy

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1932-01-29) by Spero, Alfred

Dating

16th Century, Late
17th Century#
Circa 1575 CE - 1650 CE

Note

Attributed by Rackham (1935) to Faenza, and later attributed to Venice, but this is doubtful. The form is similar to Venetian jars, but it differs from most of them in having parrots amidst the fruit, and in the scallop and trefoil borders round the base and shoulder. Most Venetian examples have either blue criss-cross borders, or horizontal stems of foliage. It also differs from typical Venetian jars in having a thin, glassy glaze which has crazed severely. The foliage and berries are reminiscent of those which appear on dishes attributed to Pesaro in the mid 16th century.

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( in blue, green, yellow, and orange)
Rim Diameter 15.4 cm
Base Diameter 16 cm
Widest Width 31.5 cm

Materials used in production

Tin-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white on the interior and exterior; rim and base unglazed. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange.

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.4-1932
Primary reference Number: 75004
Glaisher additions number: Gl. Add.39-1932
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023 Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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