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Pottery:
Aldgate Pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Pickleherring Pottery
(Possibly)
Cream earthenware, tin-glazed off-white on the upper surface and painted in blue, green, yellow and manganese. In the middle, a bird facing to left within a frame comprising one manganese circle flanked by two blue concentric circles; in each corner, a debased fleur-de-lis or trefoil leaf.
History note: From a building in Saffron Walden, where purchased by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 2.1 cm
Height: 13.2 cm
Width: 13.2 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
Late 16th Century
Early 17th Century
Elizabeth I
James I
Circa
1571
CE
-
1620
CE
Formerly attributed to the Netherlands, where analogous tiles were made, but probably English, made either at Aldgate in London between c. 1571-1615 or at Pickleherring pottery in Southwark c. 1620
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow and manganese)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Accession number: C.2840D-1928
Primary reference Number: 15814
Old object number: Gl. 595
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Paving tile" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15814 Accessed: 2023-05-30 09:10:30
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Paving tile
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-05-30 09:10:30|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-15814
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Accession Number: C.2840-1928
Accession Number: C.2840C-1928
Accession Number: C.2840B-1928
Accession Number: C.2840A-1928
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