Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Maker(s)
Maker:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Maiolica basin for ewer, painted in blue, yellow, orange, and purple with a shield, gadroons, shell-shapes and foliage in relief.
Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. The glaze is thickly applied, and obscures the detail of the moulding. Painted in blue, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple.
Shape 72. The rib round the boss is moulded in relief with a foliated stem. The well is decorated with ten spiral reversed gadroons separated by foliage in relief, and the sloping rim has five shell-shaped depressions flanked by foliage in relief.
In the middle, beneath a prelate's or cardinal's hat, is a shield charged with the arms azure, two swords crossed in saltire proper, the hilts in chief or, flanked on each side by six tassels arranged one, two, three.
Notes
History note: Probably Sotheby's, 5 December 1918, lot 164; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher.
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 51.1 cm
Height: 6.2 cm
Place(s) associated
-
Faenza
⪼ Emilia-Romagna
⪼ Italy
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
17th Century#
Circa
1650
CE
-
1675
CE
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( in blue, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple)
Materials used in production
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Tin-glazing
: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. The glaze is thickly applied, and obscures the detail of the moulding. Painted in blue, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple.
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.2222-1928
Primary reference Number: 80801
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Thursday 11 August 2016
Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
