Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Off-white stoneware, press-moulded with decoration in relief, and salt-glazed
Off-white stoneware, press-moulded with integral relief decoration, and salt-glazed. Oval with a waved and cusped edge, deep sloping sides, and flat base with a shaped footring. The sides are decorated with twelve panels of different sizes, two containing a man and a bird respectively, and the others a stylized plant in relief. In the middle there is a Chinese scene with a building on the left, and a man and plants on the right. One of a pair with C.538B-1928
History note: Sotheby's, 18 November 1908, lot 27, with C.538B-1928; for £2. 9s. 0d.It was lot 27 under the name of Godby by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 3 cm
Length: 11.8 cm
Width: 8.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
Surface composed of salt-glaze
Press-moulding
: Off-white stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.538A-1928
Primary reference Number: 166466
Old object number: 2733
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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