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Pottery:
Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Decorator:
Unidentified decorator
(Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted overglaze in blue, yellow, pink, white, brown and green enamels
Buff eathenware, thrown with applied handle, tin-glazed and painted overglaze in blue, yellow, pink, white, brown and green enamels. Circular with curved sides, and a loop handle on one side. Decorated on the outside with Chinese ladies among flowering plants, with rocks, a fence, and a Chinese style floral border. The inside is decorated with a floral spray.
History note: Mr W.T. Laurence; sold to Mr Phillips of Hitchin in October or November 1907. He sold it to Dr.G.A.S. Schneider of Cambridge, who sold it to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 11 cm
Width: 24 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
Decoration painted overglaze in enamels on tin-glazed earthenware is a technique common on eighteenth-century Continental faïence, but extremely rare on English delftware. The decoration on this chamber pot is very close in style to that on a water bottle, C.1727-1928. It imitates the Chinese famille rose palette on porcelains of the reign of Yongzheng (1723-35), and is comparable to enamelling on Staffordshire white salt-glazed stoneware, such as a mug, C.598-1928. This suggests that although made at Liverpool, the water bottle and chamber pot were probably enamelled in north Staffordshire, possibly in Cobridge, but some ceramic scholars consider that for practical reasons it is more likely that they were enamelled in Liverpool.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, yellow, pink, white, brown and green)
Handle
buff
Earthenware
greenish-white
Tin-glaze
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, thrown with applied handle, tin-glazed greenish-white, and painted overglaze in blue, yellow, pink, white, brown and green enamels
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1728-1928
Primary reference Number: 138449
Old object number: 2885
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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