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The Sailor's Return
Unidentified Liverpool pottery
(Pottery)
Sadler, John
(Printer)
Earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and transfer-printed in black. The Sailor's Return with King of Prussia inn sign; simple scroll border.
History note: Dr Crim Collection, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.; his widow, Ella G. Crim; sold Baltimore, O.A. Kirkland auctioneer, 22 April 1903 and nine following days, Catalogue of the celebrated Dr William H. Crim Collection of Genuine antiques, To be sold by order of the Orphans Court of Baltimore City, by the undersigned Executors of Ella G. Crim, deceased, widow of the late Dr Crim, Day 1, p. 9, lot 134, Old black and white Dutch tile ; purchased by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 0.7 cm
Height: 12.7 cm
Width: 12.6 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 II
George III
Circa
1758
CE
-
1761
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( black) Front composed of tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1738-1928
Primary reference Number: 15447
Old object number: R. 1687
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"The Sailor's Return"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15447 Accessed: 2022-05-29 08:45:33
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Accession Number: P.470-1985
Accession Number: P.471-1985
Accession Number: GR.1.1835
Accession Number: P.14412-R-113
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