Pottery: Vauxhall Pottery
Salt-glazed stoneware with brown dip, and applied reliefs of a deer hunt, George II and Queen Caroline, a beefeater and trees. Inscribed ‘I G 1731’ Silver mount engraved ‘L/IM 1761, H/CM 1782, JSM 1800, ERP 1836’
History note: Montague Guest Collection. Mr S.G. Hewlett, a schoolmaster, from whom purchased via a Mr Hemming, of Little Br near Tunbridge Wells, for £12 on 30 October 1928
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 21.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J.W.L.
18th Century, second quarter#
George II
Production date:
dated
AD 1731
The initials and dates on the silver mount are presumably those of later owners up to 1836
Upper Part
composed of
slip
( ferruginous)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Inscriptions
Reliefs
grey-buff Stoneware
Throwing
: Grey-buff stoneware, with applied moulded decoration, incised inscriptions, brown dip, and salt-glaze
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.1198-1928
Primary reference Number: 138427
Old object number: 5103
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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