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Perhaps
Cantagalli factory
(Factory)
Perhaps
Unknown
(Factory)
Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in pinkish-red lustre.
Globular body standing on a footring, with cylindrical neck and roll handle with upturned lower end.
The neck is decorated with three lozenges containing stylised foliage, and with fan-shaped palmettes in the triangular spaces. On the front of the lower part there is a bird amid foliage in a circular medallion flanked by triangular compartments containing fan-shaped palmettes. The sides are decorated with stylised foliage and cross-hatched shapes, with above and below, a row of wheels reserved in a wide lustred band. The footring is decorated with spots between horizontal bands. The handle is lustred overall.
History note: Countess Howard de Walden; Thomas Sutton, Eastbourne, from whom purchased in February 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 20.2 cm
Width: 15.2 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Late 19th Century
17th Century
Circa
1600
CE
-
1700
CE
Perhaps Florence, Cantagalli factory, c. 1890, or Spanish, seventeenth century.
Decoration
composed of
reduced pigment lustre
( pinkish-red lustre)
Footring
Diameter 7.7 cm
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in pinkish-red lustre.
Accession number: C.2281-1928
Primary reference Number: 80865
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Jug"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80865 Accessed: 2022-08-09 12:51:33
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University of Cambridge}}
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