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Factory: uncertain (Probably)
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.
History note: Found in Mill Lane, Cambridge in 1902
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J.W.L.
1720s
Circa
1720
CE
-
1730
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, red)
Rim
Width 7 cm
Accession number: C.40.189-1928
Primary reference Number: 137870
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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