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Production: Unidentified Nevers factory
Earthenware, thrown, with applied handles, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue and manganese-purple. The vase is of inverted bell-shape with an everted rim, and stands on a cylindrical foot. It has two loop handles, each formed by plaited coils with a scroll at the top and bottom. On each side it is painted with a Chinese figures in a landscape in late Ming style, above which round the mouth there is a formal border of scrolls and linear motifs. The handles are decorated with spots.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 30.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, second half#
Louis XIV (1638-1715)
1660
-
1700
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt and manganese-purple)
Surface
composed of
tin-glaze
Body
Accession number: C.2302-1928
Primary reference Number: 76709
Old object number: 1331
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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