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Factory: Bill, Simpson & Co.
White earthenware, transer-printed underglaze in blue, and painted in green, yellow, and red enamels with Chinoiserie scenes and floral borders.
White earthenware, transer-printed underglaze in blue, and painted in green, yellow, and red enamels with 'The Mongol Huntsman pattern. Ovoid body with short cylindrical neck, projecting lip, and strap handle of shallow D section, standing on a footring. To the right of the handle there are two figures seated under a tree; next to them is a panel with an inverted scalloped edge enclosing a figure in a building, and a child with standing father and seated mother beneath three flowers. Below the spout there is a tall structure with a little boy and a woman standing on the left, and on the right, a table bearing a vase of flowers, a scroll and a bowl, it with a woman beside it. Further to the right is a similarly-shaped medallion containing three men and a child with a cat or dog, and a flying bird. Further to the right is a small boy below two large flowers with a bird flying overhead. Round the interior and exterior of the neck and spout there is a border of stylized flowers and scrolls, and down the back of the handle, a spray of thee blue flowers with pairs of red buds between them.
History note: Bought at Sharpe's stall in the Market Place at Cambridge on 27 March, 1926 for 17s 6d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, second quarter#
George IV
Circa
1825
CE
-
1830
CE
Inscription present: wording is surrounded by a rectangular blue line. The L is in outline and projects over the lower outline
Inscription present: half of an octagonal label with a blue edge on the upper sides
Accession number: C.1131-1928
Primary reference Number: 71392
Old object number: 4842
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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