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Production: Unknown (Probably)
Earthenware plate, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, red and dark manganese-brown with a floral spray within a border, and panels of trellis pattern
Pale buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, red and dark manganese-brown. The plate is circular with a sloping rim, deep curved sides and flat centre. In the middle there is a spray of leaves with three blue and yellow flowers, and three groups of three red buds, surrounded by a border of red ellipses separated by pairs of blue spots on reserved in a yellow ground, and edged by dark manganese-brown bands. On the rim there are four panels of red trellis pattern separated by smaller panels with green, yellow and red stylized plant motifs (perhaps a yellow bud flanked by leaves) between dark manganese-brown bands. The reverse has three peg marks, and is undecorated.
History note: Bought at Bruges about 1896 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.6 cm
Height: 3.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, first half
Circa
1800
-
1850
When Dr Glaisher bought this plate in Bruges, he considered that it was made at Thourout in Belgium. It was reattributed as probably made by the Delamettairie factory in Rouen, by Bernard Rackham in his Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection (1935). It is similar in style to another plate, C.2300-1928, the purchase place of which was not recorded.
Decoration
composed of
high temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, red, and dark manganese-brown)
Surface
composed of
tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.2299-1928
Primary reference Number: 76707
Old object number: 687
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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