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Pottery: Pickleherring Pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in blue with a circular cartouche, enclosing initials and date C/TH/1660 surrounded by ribbon, scrolling foliage and a winged cherub's head.
Pale buff earthenware (little visible), tin-glazed and painted in blue. Circular with deep everted sides with alternately wide and narrow lobes (eight of each). The base is flat with a circular depression (convex on the underside) round the centre. The area within the depression is decorated with a circular cartouche with a loop of ribbon at the top, scrolling foliage on each side, and a winged cherub's head at the bottom, enclosing the initials 'C/T H' over '1660'.
History note: Hext family, Trenarren, St Austell, Cornwall; John Hext, Exeter; his widow, Jean M. Hext.
Bequeathed by Mrs Jean M. Hext
Diameter: 39.6 cm
Height: 6.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2001-04-30) by Hext, Jean M.
17th Century, Mid#
Charles II
Production date:
dated
AD 1660
Probably made at the Pickleherring pottery in Southwark. The basin is one of a set comprising a ewer, and two covered tankards, C.7-2001, C.6 & A-2001 and C.1423 & A-1928
This basin was made for a couple whose surname began with C.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( cobalt-blue)
Moulding
: Earthenware, tin-glazed, painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: C/T H over 1660 between the T and H there is a star shape made up of dots
Inscription present: on a narrow piece of paper stuck to the back of the dish
Accession number: C.8-2001
Primary reference Number: 29489
Entry form number: 153
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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