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Description: | Shallow oval dish with broad rim, moulded in centre with scene comprising naked woman reclining on a mattress to right with small cherub climbing onto her lap. Four more cherubs in background to left, two standing arm in arm beneath fluted pillar, with small dog perched on shoulder of one, two rolling round on the floor behind. Rim moulded with eight alternating oval and circular depressions connected by moulded strapwork and interrupted by relief human masks and baskets of fruit. Decorated with a (bluish white tin-glaze), upper surface painted in cobalt blue, copper green, antimony yellow, iron brown and manganese purple-brown. Three circular stilt marks in centre of well. Greyish glaze on underside uneven and scattered with air bubbles, three heavy patches mottled with colour around sides, picked up from another plate while stacked in kiln.
Technique: relief-moulding
Material: ceramics
Material: earthenware
Material: cobalt blue
Material: tin-glazed
Material: painted in-glaze
La Fecondite charger made in England, London, 1638 (circa), (1964.256). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.6832 | Go to resource |
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