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Plate: C.2138-1928

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Production: Alcora factory

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Description

Tin-glazed earthenware painted in green, greenish-yellow, pale orange, and dull pink, and dark brown. The plate has a a rim with six indentations in the edge, a deep, sloping rim, and flat centre on which are fourteen moulded and applied fruits. The plate has green and orange bands around the rim, below which is an orange garland outlined in brown, comprising circular stylized flowerheads with swags of fabric between them. The greenish-yellow fruit have dull pink streaks radiating from a brown spot at the top to about half-way down their sides. The glaze has 'crawled' in one place on the edge of the rim. There are three peg marks on the back of the rim.

Notes

History note: Puttick & Simpson, London, 6 March, 1903, Mr Lovett’s Collection; bought by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. However, Rackham (1935), states that it came from the Riaqno Collection, bought in Eastbourne in 1904.

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 23.5 cm
Height: 3.2 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, third quarter
18th Century, Late
Circa 1765 CE - 1785 CE

Note

The Alcora factory was founded in 1727 by the 9th Duke of Aranda, Buenaventura Ximénez de Urrea, Abarca de Boléa. On his death in 1742 it was inherited by his son, Pedro Pablo.

School or Style

Rococo

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( green, greenish-yellow, orange, dull pink, and dark brown)
Fruit
Plate

Materials used in production

Tin-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Tin-glazing

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2138-1928
Primary reference Number: 76621
Old object number: 1433

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 1 August 2025

Associated departments & institutions

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

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