Cup
ca. 1620-5 (made)
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Cup of earthenware, moulded in relief and painted in coloured glazes. Oval with shaped projections on the rim at one end, which rises slightly above the level of the other. The figure is nearly nude, with slight green drapery, and holds a basket of fruit coloured green, blue, brown and manganese purple on her right arm. The ground is coloured blue and the outside of the cup purple.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, moulded and painted |
| Brief description | 'Gondola' cup with figure personifying Spring, lead-glazed earthenware, moulded. French, Fontainebleau, about 1620-5 |
| Physical description | Cup of earthenware, moulded in relief and painted in coloured glazes. Oval with shaped projections on the rim at one end, which rises slightly above the level of the other. The figure is nearly nude, with slight green drapery, and holds a basket of fruit coloured green, blue, brown and manganese purple on her right arm. The ground is coloured blue and the outside of the cup purple. |
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| Gallery label | Cup with figure personifying Spring, after a model probably by Guillaume Dupré, Fontainebleau, about 1620-5(2010 (TAB)) |
| Credit line | Given by J. H. Fitzhenry |
| Historical context | An identical cup (with different colouring) is in the Metropolitan (see Refs.) where is is described as probably after a model by Guillaume Dupré, about 1600-20 and probably made in the pottery of Claude Bertélemy (1575-1643). |
| Production | Probably made in the pottery of Claude Bertélemy. |
| Bibliographic reference | McNab, Jessie, Seventeeth-Century French Ceramic Art, The Metropoplitan Museum of Art, 1987 |
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| Accession number | C.677-1909 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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