IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76904 accession number: EC.2-1940 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 15 December 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Of half ovoid form with a slightly projecting rib, and four grotesque bearded male masks with gaping mouths at intervals round the rim. Four garlands are suspended from the masks, each of five linked bunches of fruit, flowers, and leaves applied in relief over the other decoration. The creamy-white ground is decorated with pale brown strapwork with inlaid brownish-black outlines, interlaced with inlaid brownish-black tendrils. This ground, with its decoration, was applied to the vessel, and fine lines breaking the design indicate where it was cut and shaped to fit. The beards of the masks are coloured brownish-yellow, and the garlands are coloured blue, green, brownish-yellow, and manganese. The interior has been painted pinkish buff. The vessel is supported on a later silver-plated metal, scrolled, and foliated tripod stand, with engraved ornament. The stand is secured to the vessel by means of wires passing through a hole in its base. The hole is covered by a wooden disk. object type: Fine pale cream earthenware with applied, inlaid, and painted decoration under lead glaze. title: lower part of a ewer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Debruge-Duménil Collection; sold Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Bonnefons de Lavialle commissaire-priseur, 23 January - 12 March 1850, Catalogue des objets d'art qui composent la collection Debruge Duménil dont la vente aux enchères aura lieu à Paris . . ., lot 1150; Henry T. Hope; George Eumorfopoulos; sold Sotheby's, 6 June 1940, The Eumorfopoulos Collections, Catalogue of the collection of Persian Ceramics and Islamic Glass, Egyptian, Greek and Roman Antiquities, Choice Medieval and Renaissance works of Art etc. formed by the late George Eumorfopoulos Esq., p. 71, lot 229; purchased with the Glaisher Fund LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76904 TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: Saint-Porchaire Ware category: Henri II Ware DATING ------ creation date: 1540 - 1560 creation date earliest: 1540 creation date latest: 1560 culture: 16th Century, Mid culture: Henri II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified French potter EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Medieval, Renaissance, and more Recent Periods, on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862 title: Une Orfèvrerie de Terre, Bernard Palissy et la céramique de Saint-Porchaire CITATIONS -------- Description des objets d'art qui composent la collection Debruge Duménil précédée d'une introduction historique Catalogue of the Special Exhibtion of Works of Art of the Medieval, Renaissance, and more Recent Periods, on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862 The Eumorphopoulos Collection: Western Objects I The Eumorfopoulos Collections, Catalogue of the Collection of Persian Ceramics and Islamic Glass, Egyptian, Greek and Roman Antiquities, Choice Medieval and Renaissance Works of Art etc. formed by the late George Eumorfopoulos Esq. The 16th Century French Ceramic Ware called Saint-Porchaire Saint-Porchaire Ceramics, Studies in the History of Art, 52, Monograph Series II Une Orfèvrerie de Terre, Bernard Palissy et la céramique de Saint-Porchaire Some notes on the technology and origin of the ornamentation of Saint-Porchaire wares New directions for the study of Saint-Porchaire Technical appendix II: The "Saint-Porchaire" Ceramics Saint-Porchaire La céramique de Saint-Porchaire --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/EC_2_1940.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_EC_2_1940.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/EC_2_1940.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_EC_2_1940.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/EC_2_1940.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 639 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_EC_2_1940.jpg height: 595 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/EC_2_1940.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 639 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_EC_2_1940.jpg height: 297 pixels width: 250 pixels