{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"672"},"period":{"label":"Period","value":"Charles I (1625-1649)"},"subclassification":{"label":"Sub-classification","value":"English Earthenware - Delftware"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of George and Helen Gardiner"},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"G83.1.488"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Oval dish attributed to the Pickleherring pottery, Southwark, London. It is decorated in high relief with a scene known as 'La Fécondité' showing a naked woman and four children. The ground is picked out in blue with brickwork, and the rim has masks in relief and depressions with stylised leaves and fruit. It is painted in a bold palette of ochre, blue, green and yellow. English \u201cfecundity dishes\u201d modelled much like this one bear dates from 1633 to 1697, and were displayed similarly to prints or paintings. The central scene symbolized the owners\u2019 hopes for the successful bearing and raising of children. Such classical motifs form a peculiarly English contrast with the large leaf elements, in the wells, drawn from the Eight Precious Things motif found on some Chinese export porcelain. Traditionally, fecundity dishes were thought to have been inspired by Bernard Palissy\u2019s wares made in Saintonge, France, during the late mid-16th century, but no closely similar prototype has yet been identified. Other fecundity dishes possibly from the same mould survive."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Tin-glazed earthenware (delftware)"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"1"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaRenditionNumber":"G83.1.488","publicAccess":"true","mediaImageURL":"https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/15254/full","rank":"0","pixelHeight":"2400","pixelWidth":"3000","mediaID":"15254"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Dish with an allegory of fertility"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"European Ceramics"},"rels":{"label":"Relations","value":"[]"},"subclassification2":{"label":"Sub-classification 2","value":""},"primaryMedia":{"value":"https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/15254/full"},"subclassification3":{"label":"Sub-classification 3","value":""},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":["14th to 18th Century European Earthenware and Stoneware","English Delftware"]},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Origin: London, Greater London, England"},"culture":{"label":"Culture","value":"English"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"ca.1635"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"185125"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Overall: 6 x 48.5 x 40.6 cm (2 3/8 x 19 1/8 x 16 in.)"}}]}