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Fiddler and Dancing Girl
Unidentified Liverpool pottery
(Pottery)
Sadler, John
(Printer)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and transfer-printed in grey-black. A street scene with a fiddler and a girl dancing; simple scrolled border. Signed 'J Sadler' and 'Liverpool'.
History note: Purchased from Mr Sidney Hand, Grafton Street, London, W.1. for £2 9 June, 1922 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 0.7 cm
Height: 12.6 cm
Width: 12.6 cm
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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Third quarter of 18th century
George II
Circa
1758
CE
-
1761
CE
Possibly after Gravelot or Francis Hayman, p. 56, B.5-2, pl. 39, see Liverpool Printed Tiles, Anthony Ray, E.C.C.T, 1973.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( grey-black) Front composed of tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Inscription present: script letters
Accession number: C.1729-1928
Primary reference Number: 15438
Old object number: 3786A
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Fiddler and Dancing Girl"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15438 Accessed: 2022-05-29 10:35:59
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Accession Number: Marlay 40-pl.33
Accession Number: PD.136-1948
Accession Number: EC.11B-1938
Accession Number: PD.145-1948
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