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Production: unidentified London pottery
Stoneware with dark brown dip at the top and bottom, decorated with applied reliefs and salt-glazed
Greyish buff stoneware, thrown, decorated with applied moulded reliefs, coated with freckled dark brown dip on the upper and lower part of the sides, and salt-glazed. The jar is cylindrical with curved shoulders, a short incurved neck and rolled mouth. Round the middle are incised the names and date 'George Bennison & Sarah Nov 28 1752', Above and below this, there is a band of adjacent inn-signs. Above: The Four Swans, The Grenadier, The Crown, The King's Head (with initials GR), the Duke of Marlborough (DM), The Peal of Bells (eight bells and bell ringers), The Sun, The Jolly Sailor, The Star, The Hart, and The Noah's Ark. Below: The Bull, The Griffin, The Bell, The Swan, The Rose (with the name Wm Hasmere?), The Castle (? part missing), The Angel, The Spread Eagle, another missing, and The Angler (?)
History note: Sidney Hand, 6a Grafton Street, Bond Street London, W from whom purchased for £10 on May 18, 1910 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 27.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
dated
AD 1752
Part
composed of
brown dip
Glaze
composed of
salt
Reliefs
Sides
Throwing : Greyish buff stoneware, thrown, decorated with applied moulded reliefs, coated with dark brown dip on the upper and lower part of the sides, and salt-glazed
Accession number: C.1205-1928
Primary reference Number: 71553
Old object number: 3121
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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