Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
White salt-glazed stoneware tray with Chinese styled decoration
Off-white stoneware with salt glaze. Press moulded. Oval shaped with sloping sides and fluted rim, and a flat base. The centre is decorated with a Chinese landscape, with a Chinese man beside a building, a bird, and some trees. The sides are divided into 12 different sizes panels, 10 are decorated with flowers, one with a bird, and the last with a Chinese man.
History note: Bought at Sotheby’s, lot 27, November 18th 1907. Bought under the name of Godby.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 2.5 cm
Width: 12.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
Production date:
circa
AD 1750
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
white Stoneware
Accession number: C.538-1928
Primary reference Number: 221646
Old object number: 2733
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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