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Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
Pottery: unidentified London pottery
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white on the upper surface and painted in manganese. Within a circular medallion, framed by two concentric lines, 'Joseph and Potiphar's Wife'; barred ox-head corners. There is a hole in the top left and lower right corner.
History note: From a fireplace surround in the upper room at Sennitts’, the Butcher’s, 17 Peas Hill, Cambridge' bought by Stanley Woolston, Cambridge and sold on 26 August 1924 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.4 cm
Width: 12.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1730
CE
-
1760
CE
The event depicted is described in the Bible, Genesis 39: 12
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
( greyish-white)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( manganese)
Accession number: C.2823.15-1928
Primary reference Number: 15483
Old object number: 4479a
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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