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A Woman holding a Purse
Unidentified Bristol pottery
(Pottery)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue. Within a circular medallion, a woman holding a purse; landscape background. 'Flower-head' corners.
History note: Unknown before Spencer George Perceval
S.G. Perceval Bequest, 1922
Depth: 0.7 cm
Height: 13.1 cm
Width: 13.1 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
(1922)
by
Perceval, Spencer George
Mid 18th Century
George II
George III
Circa
1740
CE
-
1770
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt oxide) Front composed of tin-glaze
Accession number: PER.C.33-1922
Primary reference Number: 15397
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)
"A Woman holding a Purse"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15397 Accessed: 2022-05-28 09:10:56
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Accession Number: P.242-1937
Accession Number: GR.157.1864
Accession Number: C.15-1954
Accession Number: C.1020-2016
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