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Five Peasants Carousing
Unidentified Liverpool pottery
(Pottery)
John Sadler and Guy Green
(Printers)
After
Teniers, David II
(Painter)
Adapted from
Mercier, Philippe
(Engraver)
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
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
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Third quarter of 18th century
George III
Circa
1765
CE
-
1775
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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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Tile"
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Accession Number: C.2790B-1928
Accession Number: C.2790A-1928
Accession Number: EC.5-1941
Accession Number: C.2823.19-1928
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