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Potter: Unknown
Fritware painted in blue and black under a transparent glaze
Fritware, probably moulded, painted in blue with black outlining, under a transparent glaze
Shape: bulbous pear shaped body with hole for a pipe. No neck but instead a flat rim descending into a recess with a central hole, sits on a flat base.
Exterior: rim is decorated with tendrils, leaves and circle quadrants, all delineated within concentric lines on the inner surface. The exterior edge of the lip is not glazed. The central frieze on the body is framed by double lappets above and below by wave scrolls. A landscape of rocks, trees and waterfalls on that central frieze is populated by a horned, spotted cow and a figure, holding a staff, whose robes swirl around his lower body,. The glaze extends over the entire body but not onto the underside of the base.
Interior: glazed around the rim but not on the body
History note: From the Joseph Dixon Collection, sold at Christie’s, 16th-17th March, 1911, lot 132
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 16.5 cm
Weight: 716 g
Width: 14.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1911-03-20) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Late 17th or early 18th century
Circa
1650
-
1750
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( blue, black)
glaze
( transparent, extends over the entire body but not onto the underside of the base)
Interior Rim
composed of
glaze
( transparent)
Rim
Diameter 9.3 cm
Base
Diameter 9 cm
Moulding : Fritware, probably moulded, painted in blue with black outlining, under a transparent glaze
Inscription present: circular paper label
Inscription present: inscribed directly onto the glaze, partially worn away
Accession number: C.49-1911
Primary reference Number: 75279
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Water-pipe" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75279 Accessed: 2023-05-29 04:38:34
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: EC.2-1941
Accession Number: M.2-1931
Accession Number: P.7-2017
Accession Number: C.91-1984
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