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A Chinese woman fishing accompanied by a boy
Unidentified Liverpool pottery
(Pottery)
Sadler, John
(Printer)
Earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and transfer-printed in grey-black. A Chinese woman fishing accompanied by a boy; simple scroll border. Signed in right-hand corner 'Sadler/Liverpool'.
History note: Purchased from Mr Sidney Hand, Grafton Street, London, W. 1. for £2 on 9th 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
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
1761
CE
The scene on this tile is from Jean Pillement, et al (Robert Hancock, Anthony Walker and others.), The Ladies Amusement or the Art of Japanning Made Easy, London (Robert Sayer), 1760. 'January' from the ‘12 Months of the Year’ series, depicting Women in Oriental settings.
Decoration: composed of high-temperature colours ( grey-black) Front: composed of tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1740-1928
Primary reference Number: 15450
Old object number: 3786C
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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