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Maker(s)
Pottery:
Lambeth High Street Pottery
Proprietor:
Griffith, Abigail
(Lambeth High Street)
Entities
Categories
Description
Buff earthenware tin-glazed greenish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow and red. Circular with sloping rim, shallow sides, and flat centre with recessed base. Decorated in the centre with a Chinese figure seated in an Oriental landscape, and on the rim with four floral sprays alternating with four sprigs. The blue leaves have veins scratched through the colour (sgraffito technique).
Notes
History note: Bought by the vendor in a village near Cambridge; Mr Freeman's sale on 27 January 1904, where bought by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 23.3 cm
Place(s) associated
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J.W.L.
Dating
18th Century, third quarter
George III
Circa
1765
CE
-
1775
CE
Note
Made at Lambeth High Street pottery before or during the partnership of Abigail Griffith with Thomas Morgan
School or Style
Chinoiserie
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, and red)
Materials used in production
buff
Earthenware
greenish-white
Tin-glaze
Techniques used in production
Press-moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed greenish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and red high-temperature (oxide) colours
Tin-glazing
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.1482B-1928
Primary reference Number: 193213
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 5 February 2013
Updated: Tuesday 25 June 2019
Last processed: Friday 16 February 2024
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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