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Maker: unidentified London pottery
Tin-glazed dark blue and painted in white
Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed dark blue, and painted in white. Globular with a cylindrical neck and strap handle rounded on the exterior with a V-shaped terminal. Decorated with a Chinese figure seated in an Oriental landscape, and round the neck with a formal border.
History note: Mr Lennal of Syresham, near Brackley, Northants; Mr J. Bateman, Gloucester Green, Oxford who sold it in 1916 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 7.5 cm
Width: 9.8 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: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J.W.L.
Formerly attributed to Norfolk House, Lambeth, however, sherds of this type have been found at various London pottery sites
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( opaque white)
Body
Handle
buff
Earthenware
dark blue
Tin-glaze
Accession number: C.1382-1928
Primary reference Number: 138437
Old object number: 4130
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 (2022) "Mug" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/138437 Accessed: 2022-09-26 05:06:46
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