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Production:
Delamettairie factory
(Probably)
Production:
Forges les Eaux factory
(Possibly)
Earthenware, tin-glazed on the front and painted in blue, green and orange-red with a spray of flowers, and on the rim with a border of mottled manganese-purple; the reverse glazed dark manganese-brown
Earthenware, moulded, tin glazed white on the front and painted in blue, green and orange-red, and glazed dark manganese-brown on the reverse (cul noir). Circular with a wavy edge, sloping rim, and shallow well with curved sides. The front is decorated with a spray of leaves and a large blue flower with an orange-red centre and two more orange-red flowers. The rim is mottled with manganese between two concentric circles of darker manganese-purple.
History note: Bought at Caen, 1 April 1894 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 20.8 cm
Height: 2.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, first half
Circa
1800
-
1850
Decration
composed of
high temperature colours
( blue, green, orange-red)
Surface
composed of
tin-glaze
( white and manganese-purple)
Decoration
Moulding : Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed white on the front and painted in blue green orange-red and manganese-purple; tin-glazed manganese-purple on the reverse
Accession number: C.2298-1928
Primary reference Number: 76706
Old object number: 255
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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