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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1600 - 1650; Classification(s): tin-glazed earthenware, ewer, tin-glazing, Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white on the interior and exterior. Painted in blue, dark and pale yellow, and manganese-purple.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr, 1928, Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest [C.2276-1928]
Description: Ewer. Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white on the interior and exterior. Painted in blue, dark and pale yellow, and manganese-purple.
Cylindrical with bulbous lower part, projecting lip moulded underneath with a grotesque mask, and angular strap handle. The reel-shaped foot is a replacement in opaque-white glass.
The mask has crudely delineated eyes and mouth in manganese and dark yellow, and a blue frill-like beard with yellow ears above on each side. It is surrounded by crosses and dots alternating with stylised flowers and foliage. The foot is painted bluish-green. The back of the handle is striped horizontally in two shades of yellow and has a wavy manganese-purple line down the middle. | 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: | tin-glazed earthenware Unknown ewer | Temporal: | name=17th Century; start=1600; end=1650 | 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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