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Description: | Artist: Pickleherring, pottery; Date(s): dated 1649; Classification(s): tin-glazed earthenware, dish, press-moulding, buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, pale green, yellow, brown, and manganese-purple; Acquisition: bequeathed by Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr, 1928, Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest [C.1408-1928]
Description: Earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, pale green, yellow, brown, and manganese-purple. Circular with a wavy rim divided into sixteen alternately large and small lobes, and a deep well which is convex in the middle. Decorated in the middle with two putti holding a wreath over the head of a winged semi-human monster holding a shield-shaped cartouche inscribed B/EM/1649. The rest of the surface is decorated with grotesques. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | dish tin-glazed earthenware Pickleherring | Temporal: | name=mid 17th century; start=1649; end=1649 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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