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Railway Basin
Production: Baggerley & Ball (Possibly)
White earthenware, thrown, transfer-printed in brown underglaze, and painted overglaze in green and dark pink enamels. The cylindrical bowl has sloping sides, and stands on a low foot which is concave underneath. The exterior is decorated with a railway-train travelling to the left through a landscape with hills, trees, two cottages and a church with a spire. The six-wheeled locomotive, labelled 'MAIL', is followed by a small coal tender, three closed, four-wheeled first class carriages with luggage on their roofs, and an unoccupied brougham on an open truck. The two ends of the transfer do not meet accurately. Inside the upper edge there is a geometrical pattern with pendant tassel-like motifs. On the base are the initials of the manufacturer, 'B & B', with above a scroll printed with the pattern name, 'RAILWAY'.
History note: Mr. Bateman, Gloucester Green,Oxford from whom purchased on March 26, 1915 for £1.10 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, third quarter#
William IV
Production date:
circa
AD 1835
B. & B. may stand for Baggerley & Ball of High Street, Lane End, Longton recorded 1828-35
Decoration
composed of
ceramic printing colour
( brown)
enamel
( green and dark pink)
Rim
Diameter 13.8 cm
Foot
white
Earthenware
Lead-glaze
Inscription present: octagonal white paper stick-on label partly edged in dark blue
Accession number: C.1150-1928
Primary reference Number: 71418
Old object number: 4403
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Railway Basin" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71418 Accessed: 2024-11-21 14:03:30
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