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Production: Unidentified Nevers pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue. Goblet-shaped with a domed top pierced to take flower stems
Buff earthenware, thrown, pierced, covered with slightly bluish tin-glaze and painted in blue. The vase is in the form of a goblet with deep curved sides and everted rim, standing on a convex circular foot. which has a concave area in the middle of the underside. The bowl of the goblet has a domed cover with a short neck and central mouth, and, round the sides, a row of twelve holes and a row of eight holes to hold the stems of flowers. There is a broad painted band round the neck, and each hole is encircled by a blue line. Between the holes there are scattered groups of three spots. The sides of the goblet are decorated with a band of paired scroll and pendant motifs with groups of three spots between the pendants. Below there are three horizontal bands. The stem is blue and the foot is decorated with radiating petals alternating with two short strokes between pairs of concentric bands.
History note: Bought at Aix-les-Bains, for 8 frcs on 17 July 1903 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 9.8 cm
Height: 12.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late or 18th Century, Early
Louis XIV (1638-1715)
Circa
1670
-
1710
The border on the foot is similar to that on C.2312-1928.
Decoration
composed of
high temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Surface
composed of
tin-glaze
Upper Part
Accession number: C.2301-1928
Primary reference Number: 76708
Old object number: 2011
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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