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Cock-spouted Ewer
Fritware painted in three colours under a transparent white glaze
Fritware, wheel thrown and moulded, painted in blue, turquoise and black under a transparent white glaze.
Shape: spout is moulded into the form of a cock’s head (but without holes, necessitating pouring from rim) with strap handle, symbolising tail feathers, attached on the upper body and spout. Body is a bulbous pear shape sitting on a low foot ring.
Interior: rim and neck are painted in blue and black imitating a cock’s head including head feathers, mouth and eyes. On the body three horizontal friezes, comprising either blue or black vertical lines, or black dots, or black pseudo-calligraphy, frame a large central frieze of vertical panels. The panels are separated by blue or turquoise lines and contain black dots or a blue or black cable pattern on a hatched ground. The handle is painted with a doted ‘S’ pattern framed by blue lines. Over all the surface blue and turquoise pigment has run into the surrounding glaze which covers the surface to the lower body, running unevenly onto the foot ring.
Interior: a black dentillated pattern is painted on the rim. Visible surface is coated with glaze.
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 30.2 cm
Weight: 1183 g
Width: 18 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: Bought
(1935)
by
Brangwyn, Frank
13th-14th Century
Circa
1200
-
Circa
1399
Rim
composed of
pigment
( black)
Diameter 6 cm
Exterior
composed of
pigment
( blue, black, turquoise)
glaze
( white, transparent, covers the surface to the lower body, running unevenly onto the foot ring)
Interior
composed of
glaze
( white, transparent, visible surface is coated)
Base
Diameter 9 cm
Body
Spout
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Inscription present: pink paper label with serrated edge
Inscription present: hand written directly onto object surface
Accession number: C.73-1935
Primary reference Number: 75944
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.132
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 (2022)
"Cock-spouted Ewer"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75944 Accessed: 2022-05-18 13:00:18
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Accession Number: C.75-1935
Accession Number: C.454-1991
Accession Number: ANE.29.1987
Accession Number: C.257 & A-1934
£95.00
£16.70
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