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Production: Hannong, Joseph Adam
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels with a Chinoiserie scene, and floral sprays
Pale buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed and painted in pale blue, blue, pale and dark green, yellow, dark puce, and dark brown enamels. The oval, silver-shaped dish has a with a wavy edge, a deep sloping rim with eight panels. and a deep well with curved sides and flat base. On the underside there are three spur marks. The well is painted with a vignette of a man fishing in a landscape with a four rocks and plants beside a stream. He is wearing pale blue breeches, and a puce hat, jacket and boots, and holds net on a pole over the stream. The panels on the right and left ends of the sloping rim are painted with a single stylized flower on a twig with leaves, and the two on the long sides with two stylized flowers on twigs with leaves. The other four panels each have a much smaller leaf sprig. A dark brown line runs round the shaped edge.
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 4.2 cm
Length: 30.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1945-09-06)
18th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1765
CE
-
1770
CE
Many of the Chinoiserie figures on Strasbourg faïence were inspired by prints by Jean Pillement (1728-1808)
Decoration composed of enamel ( pale blue, blue, pale and dark green, yellow, dark puce, and dark brown)
pale buff
Earthenware
thick white
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Pale buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed overall, and painted in pale blue, blue, pale and dark green, yellow, dark puce, and dark brown enamels
Tin-glazing
Accession number: EC.34-1945
Primary reference Number: 76952
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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