Production: Lowerdown Pottery
Stoneware with iron-speckled buff glaze, painted in iron-brown and greyish-blue with a stylized plant spray
Stoneware, thrown, with applied handle, with iron-speckled buff glaze, painted in iron-brown and greyish-blue. The mug has a wide base and tapering sides which expand just below the rim. The top of the strap handle is at the narrowest point and its lower end just above the base. The front is decorated with a stylzied plant spray of two leaves and spire-lie flower flanked on each side by two greyish-blue curved stems. There is a broad iron-brown band round the rim with a narrow horizontal band below, and the outside of the handle is also brown. Once part of a coffee set with C.48 & A-2007 and C.50-2007
History note: Unknown before donr
Given by P.H.D.S. Wikramaratna in memory of his brother P.H. Diananda
Height: 7 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2007-11-19) by Wikramaratna, P. H. D. S.
20th Century, third quarter#
Elizabeth II
Production date:
circa
AD 1970
The mark is that of the Lowerdown Pottery run by David Andrew Leach (1911-2005) from 1956 to 2003. Jeremy Leach also worked there from 1970 to 1974 (?) and again from 1983-97/8 and from 2001
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
( probably)
iron
Base
Diameter 7.7 cm
Handle-rim
Width 9.7 cm
Handle
Throwing
: Stoneware, thrown, with applied handle, with iron-speckled buff glaze, painted in iron-brown and greyish-blue
Glazing
Accession number: C.49-2007
Primary reference Number: 157656
Entry form number: 976
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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