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Pottery:
Lambeth High Street Pottery
Proprietor of pottery:
Griffith, Abigail
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue. Circular wth a sloping rim, sloping sides, and flat centre with recessed base. The front is decorated overall with a shepherd and shepherdess in a landscape with a ruined building with arches next to a tree on the left.
History note: One of six plates in Plashwood's Sale; bought by Mr Johnson, 4 Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk who sold it about 1894 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS. Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J.W.L.
18th Century, third quarter
Circa
1770
CE
-
Circa
1775
CE
The figures were probably derived from a scene printed on the title plate of Morceaux de caprices a divers usages, engraved by Charles Albert de Lespilliez (1723-1796) after Jean François de Cuvilliés (1695-1768), c. 1770. The shepherd is holding a houlette, a staff with a cup-shaped end which was used for throwing stones at dogs or wolves which threatened the flock.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue from cobalt)
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded tin-glazed and painted in blue; three point marks on the reverse suggest that the plate may have been fired on a trivet
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1581B-1928
Primary reference Number: 197220
Old object number: 364
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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