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Production: Unidentified (Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and black. Cylindrical with a domed, pierced cover with a finial, decorated on the sides with birds amidst plants in Chinese style.
Pale buff earthenware, thrown, turned, and pierced, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue with black outlines. The concave underside is pierced by a large circular hole through which the sugar could be inserted. The castor is cylindrical with two raised bands round the lower part and one below the domed cover which is pierced with four rosettes of two different shapes, and is topped by a vase-shaped finial. The sides of the domed upper part are painted with two daisy-like rosettes and two multi-petalled rosettes, whose petals are pierced, and round the base of the finial has a border of stylized plants. The main field below is painted with a standing swan-like bird, a small perching bird, a flying bird, and another small perching bird, amidst flowering plants painted in the style of Chinese porcelain. Below, between the two raised bands, there are formal flowers on a wavy stem with a scrolled background, and below that, a band of lappets round the lower edge.
History note: Captain Herbert Durrell Terry (1847-1911) of Ripley, Surrey and after 1903 of Great Duryard, Exeter; Terry sale in Eastbourne (where he owned a bungalow). Dando’s shop, Bath where bought for £4 on 28 September 1919 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 19.9 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
1680
-
1715
Faïence sugar castors copied the forms of silver and pewter castors. When purchased by Dr Glaisher this example was attributed to Rouen, but Bernard Rackham, reattributed it to Nevers in his Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection . . ., 1935.
Decoration
composed of
high temperature colours
( blue and black)
Whole Surface
composed of
tin-glaze
( very pale bluish)
Base
Diameter 9.7 cm
Sides
Top
Throwing (pottery technique)
: Pale buff earthenware, thrown, turned, pierced, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue with black outlines
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.2311-1928
Primary reference Number: 76712
Old object number: 3840
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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