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Salt: C.40.189-1928

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Current Location: In storage

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Factory: uncertain (Probably)

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Description

Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, and red with stylized floral motifs and an upper border of petals striped in red reserved in a blue ground

Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, and red. Of capstan form with an outward curving rim, and a shallow bowl-shaped depression for the salt in the top. About two-thirds of the lower part is missing. The sides are decorated in all three colours with stylized flower and leaf motifs with detached blue flower heads and paired leaves between them. There are two blue bands round the lower edge, and on the rim, a border of semi-circular petals striped in red reserved in a blue ground. The middle of the salt pan is decorated wtih a pair of leaves within two concentric blue circles.

Notes

History note: Found in Mill Lane, Cambridge in 1902

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J.W.L.

Dating

1720s
Circa 1720 CE - 1730 CE

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, red)
Rim Width 7 cm

Materials used in production

Tin-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Tin-glazing

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Mill Lane/1902
  • Location: On inside of the side
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in red ink
  • Type: Inscription

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.40.189-1928
Primary reference Number: 137870

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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