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A Spray of Wild Pansies
Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in 'Fazackerly' colours: blue, greyish-green, yellow, orange-red and manganese. In the middle, a spray of three wild pansies or violets; leaf corners.
History note: Unknown before Spencer George Perceval, Henbury
S.G. Perceval Bequest, 1922
Depth: 0.6 cm
Height: 12.5 cm
Width: 12.5 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
Third quarter of 18th century
George II
George III
Circa
1755
CE
-
1775
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, greyish-green, yellow, orange-red and manganese)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Accession number: PER.C.22-1922
Primary reference Number: 15423
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 (2023) "A Spray of Wild Pansies" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15423 Accessed: 2023-06-04 12:36:08
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-04 12:36:08|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: M.55 & A & B & C-1982
Accession Number: PD.154-1973
Accession Number: PD.716-1973
Accession Number: PD.109-1973.15
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