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Pottery: Unidentified Yorkshire or Staffordshire Pottery
Cream-coloured earthenware, pierced, and lead-glazed, with applied moulded handle. Circular with curved sides, pierced with holes creating a stylized flowerhead pattern; moulded shell-shaped handle
History note: Robert and Elizabeth Hirsch; Elizabeth Hirsch, Cambridge
Given from the Robert and Elizabeth Hirsch Collection
Diameter: 8.7 cm
Height: 2.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1991-01-21) by Hirsch, Elizabeth, Mrs
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1770
CE
-
1800
CE
A small strainer illustrated in the Castleford Pottery Pattern Book is described as a 'Couloir a oeufs'.
Handle
Sides
cream-coloured
Earthenware
Lead-glaze
Accession number: C.11-1991
Primary reference Number: 71367
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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