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Production: Unidentified Nevers factory
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and dark manganese-purple with floral sprays, horizontal bands, and simplified leaves
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white, and painted in blue and dark manganese-purple. The cup is in the form of a small wine glass. It has a rounded bucket-shaped bowl with an everted rim, a baluster stem, and a domed foot. The bowl is decorated with a continuous spray of simple flowers and leaves painted in blue with manganese-outlines, and with a horizontal blue band above and below. The baluster stem has four horizontal blue bands of different widths. The foot has a radiating band of blue petals or leaves alternating with one or two short strokes, and a line close to the outer edge.
History note: J. Taurin, 4 Place Bartéléme, Rouen, where bought for 25 francs on 31 May 1913 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 9.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century
Circa
1700
-
1799
Decoration
composed of
high temperature colours
( blue and dark manganese)
Surface
composed of
tin-glaze
Foot
Diameter 5.6 cm
Rim Of Bowl
Diameter 5 cm
Throwing (pottery technique) : Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed overall, and painted in blue and dark manganese
Accession number: C.2312-1928
Primary reference Number: 76713
Old object number: 3687
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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