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Production: Aprey Faïence Factory
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in green, yellow, puce-pink, brownish-red, and black enamels with a man in a landscape and insects
Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in green, yellow, puce-pink, brownish-red, and black enamels (petit feu decoration). Oval with a lobed and cusped edge, sloping concave rim, and deep curved slides. The well is decorated with a man standing on a grassy path beside a fence and a shrub with puce-pink flowers. He holds his right hand up, and wears a wide-brimmed green hat and a pink tunic over long yellowish-cream trousers. On the rim there are three large butterflies or moths, and three smaller flying insects. The edge is puce-pink. There are three peg marks on the reverse close to the edge.
History note: Fresco’s , London, from whom bought in 1892 or 1893 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 31 cm
Height: 3.8 cm
Width: 20.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
The decoration of Aprey faience was influenced by Strasbourg. See EC.34-1945, a Strasbourg dish with Chinoiserie decoration.
Decoration composed of enamel ( green, yellow, puce-pink, brownish-red, and black)
Moulding
: Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in green, yellow,puce-pink, brownish-red, and black enamels
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.2373-1928
Primary reference Number: 76734
Old object number: 487
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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