Pottery:
Redcliff Back Pottery
(Probably)
Proprietor of pottery:
Frank, Richard
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with Chinese figures in a landscape and a bianco-sopra-bianco floral border
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed pale lavender painted in blue and in bianco-sopra-bianco. Circular with a wide slightly sloping rim, shallow curved sides and flat centre with a recessed base. Decorated in the middle with two Chinese figures, one holding a net over his shoulder, standing opposite each other in an Oriental landscape with trees, flowers, houses and distant mountains. The rim has a border of stylized flowers and foliage in bianco-sopra-bianco.
History note: Bought in Cambridge on 22 May 1894 by Dr J.F.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J.W.L.
18th Century, third quarter
George III
Circa
1760
CE
-
1765
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue and white)
buff
Earthenware
lavender-blue
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed lavender-blue, and decorated with painting in blue and bianco-sopra-bianco
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1599B-1928
Primary reference Number: 197234
Old object number: 649
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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