Factory:
West Pans Porcelain Manufactory
Potter:
Littler, William
Soft-paste porcelain teabowl, painted underglaze in blue.
Soft-paste porcelain teabowl, moulded, and painted in blue underglaze. The circular tea bowl has curved sides, moulded with three oval panels edged with flower wreath tied with ribbon bows, on a ribbed ground, the ground covered in runny underglaze dark blue.
History note: Mr Stoner, London, from whom bought, together with another tea bowl C.3092B-1928 and a teapot C.3091 & A-1928, for £19 on 11 October, 1918, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 8.5 cm
Height: 4.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1764
CE
-
1777
CE
The dish was attributed to Longton Hall when acquired by Dr Glaisher. It was reattributed to West Pans on the basis of dish fragments with moulded leaves on the rims found on the factory site. The West Pans porcelain factory was founded in 1764 by William Littler who had previously directed the Longton Hall factory which closed in 1760.
Decoration composed of cobalt-blue ( the term 'Littler's blue' in the earlier descriptio has been changed to dark underglaze blue because Littler's blue' is usually applied to white salt-glaze stoneware and was produced by a different technique)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.3092A-1928
Primary reference Number: 38196
Old object number: 4498
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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