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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1700 - 1800; Classification(s): tin-glazed earthenware, vase, tin-glazing, Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white overall. Painted in blue, sage-green, yellow, orange, brown, and manganese-purple.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr, 1928, Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest [C.2242-1928]
Description: Vase. Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white overall. Painted in blue, sage-green, yellow, orange, brown, and manganese-purple.
Inverted piriform body standing on a circular spreading foot, the upper part covered by a domed false cover surmounted by a globular finial with a hole in the top.
On the body is a coast scene with trees and buildings and the sun rising over distant mountains. The false cover and the foot have yellow grounds decorated with radiating elongated petals outlined in yellow and brown. There are two manganese horizontal bands between the top of the landscape and the upper part, and two more below the finial. | 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: | vase tin-glazed earthenware Unknown | Temporal: | name=18th century; start=1700; end=1800 | 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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