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Factory: Wedgwood
White earthenware with slightly blue tinted glaze, transfer-printed in dark brown. Circular, very slightly convex, pierced by a large central hole and three concentric circles of smaller holes. In the centre there is a Chinese scene with a junk and a smaller boat on a lake, buildings, two men standing on the shore, trees, and distant hills. Round the edge there is a floral border.
History note: Robert and Elizabeth Hirsch
Given from the Robert and Elizabeth Hirsch Collection
Diameter: 36.1 cm
Height: 2.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1991-01-21) by Robert and Elizabeth Hirsch Collection
Circa 1830 - 1840
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
The pattern is similar in style to Wedgwood's brown 'Chinese Temples' pattern of c. 1832, see Robin Reilly, Wedgwood, London, 1989, II, p. 341, pl. 480, which has a B painted in brown.
Decoration
Moulding
: White earthenware with slightly blue tinted glaze, transfer-printed in dark brown
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: ?
Inscription present: '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. The donors' initials and the numbers of their adjacent houses in Newnham.
Accession number: C.8-1991
Primary reference Number: 11978
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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