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Creamware, moulded, with applied reliefs and rouletted (?) borders, painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, red, and black enamels. Rectangular in plan with straight sides, in-curved shoulders and a flat rectangular cover, The edges of the sides, the in-curved shoulder, and the edges of the cover have narrow border sof alternating quatrefoil and oval motifs in relief painted green. On one of the long sides there is a relief bust of George III and on the other of Queen Charlotte (the relief below the head missing) painted in polychrome enamels, and in each corner a quarter of a petalled flowerhead in green and yellow. The two short sides, and the top of the cover are painted with a red rose spray and other buds and leaves. The four shoulders have a floral spray and two sprigs in red and green.
History note: Mr Parkin of Waterloo Road, Brighton Hove (unclear which) from whom purchased for £8.5s.0d. on 20 October 1920 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS. Trinityu College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 16.5 cm
Width: 10.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
Production date:
circa
AD 1780
: The canister probably dates from about 1780 as a comparable example without the borders on the shoulders in a private collection is dated 1781.
George III ruled from 1760 to 1820. He married Princesss Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1761.
Several cramware caddies of this rectangular form with a sloping neck and flat cover are recorded. A plain example was formerly in the Chicago Institute of Art; two painted underglaze in blue with chinoiseries is in the Victoria and Albert Museum; and another, lacking the borders on the shoulders, and painted in enamels with flowers, and dated '1781' is in a private collection. See Documentation, Walford, 2011. Rackham (1935) attributed the canister uncertainly to Leeds, but Walford considers that attribution to one of the north east of England potteries was a possibility.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( grey-blue, green, yellow, red, and black)
Borders
Reliefs
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with blue line border
Accession number: C.1058 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 71243
Old object number: 3794
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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