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Factory: Wedgwood
Cream-coloured earthenware, painted in purple, two shades of green, and brown enamel-colours. Oval, pierced by a large central hole, and spaced smaller holes. Round the edge, between two narrow brown lines, there is a border of vine branches bearing bunches of grapes, and, on the rim, a broader brown line.
History note: Robert and Elizabeth Hirsch Collection
Given from the Robert and Elizabeth Hirsch Collection
Height: 1.6 cm
Length: 38.7 cm
Width: 27.6 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1991-01-21) by Robert and Elizabeth Hirsch Collection
George III
Late 18th century
Circa
1785
CE
-
1800
CE
For the pattern, 'Purple Vine', see Robin Reilly, Wedgwood, London, 1989, I, p. 292, pls. 350-52, a mug, a jug, and a mug, dated to c. 1785-90, all in the City Museum and Art Gallery, Hanley. Large drainers were difficult to make and undamaged specimens from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century are rare.
Josiah Wedgwood I or Wedgwood & Byerley
Decoration composed of enamels ( purple, two shades of green, and brown)
Lead-glaze
Cream-coloured earthenware
Moulding
: Cream-coloured earthenware, painted in purple, two shades of green, and brown enamel-colours
Piercing
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: Circular label printed in black. 'ROBERT & ELIZABETH HIRSCH . COLLECTION' reserved in a black border, surrounding in left top quarter 'R/No 18' over grapes, and in the right top quarter, 'E/No 17' over two fish, with a border of dots and short lines round the lower half.
Accession number: C.6-1991
Primary reference Number: 11795
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Dish drainer" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11795 Accessed: 2023-03-25 03:03:40
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Accession Number: C.4-1991
Accession Number: C.8E-1977
Accession Number: C.3-1991
Accession Number: C.12 & A-1991
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