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The Blue Boy
Factory:
F. & R. Pratt & Co.
Painter:
Gainsborough, Thomas
(After)
Pot with lid. White earthenware, moulded and decorated underglaze with a multicolour transfer print. On the top 'The Blue Boy', after Thomas Gainsborough; purple seaweed on sides. On cylindrical pot with splayed base decorated with purple seaweed.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 6.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, Mid-Late
Victoria I
Circa
1850
CE
-
1900
CE
Pot
Diameter 10.6 cm
Lid
Diameter 12.0 cm
Decoration
Moulding
: White earthenware, moulded and decorated underglaze with a multicolour transfer print
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: GPL.68 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 14669
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 (2024) "The Blue Boy" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/14669 Accessed: 2024-12-22 10:14:42
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University of Cambridge}}
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