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Five Peasants Carousing
Pottery:
Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Printers:
John Sadler and Guy Green
Painter:
Teniers, David II
(After)
Engraver:
Mercier, Philippe
(Adapted from)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and transfer-printed in grey-black. Five peasants carousing at a table, one holding up a glass; '88' border.
History note: Sotheby's, 13 November, 1907, part of lot 75; bought by Mr Button on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 0.7 cm
Height: 12.7 cm
Width: 12.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1765
CE
-
1775
CE
Made in Liverpool and printed by J. Sadler and G. Green. The scene was adapted from an engraving of c. 1730-40 by Philip Mercier (1689-1760) after David Teniers the Younger (1610-90). For an illustration of the print in the British Museum and a similar tile in Merseyside County Museums, see Documentation, J. and G. Lewis, 1984.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( grey-black)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Accession number: C.1733-1928
Primary reference Number: 15442
Old object number: 2732.2
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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