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Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue
Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed greyish-white and painted in blue. Oval with a fluted lip at either end, flat shoulders with slightly raised inner edge on the side edges, and two handles in the form of foxes (one lacking its head), standing on a low footring. The interior is painted with a shield charged with a coat of arms: three pheons, on a chief a pierced mullt; above a helmet with a crest (a right arm holding an arrow).
History note: Bryan T. Harland, Croydon; Mrs Bryan T Harland; sold Sotheby's, 11-12 February 1931, The Harland collections: the well-known collection of English Pottery; various works of art, first day, lot 51; bought by the Fitzwilliam Museum using the Glaisher Fund
Bought from Mrs Harland, using the Glaisher Fund
Length: 20.3 cm
Length: 8 in
Method of acquisition: Bought (1931-03-27) by Harland, Caroline, Mrs
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
CE
-
Circa
1750
CE
A pheon is the heraldic name for the head of a dart
The form was derived from silver sauceboats, and was also made in Saint-Cloud and Worcester soft-paste porcelain.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
Press-moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded with applied moulded handles, tin-glazed greyish-white, and painted in blue high temperature colour. The glaze has been wiped off the underside of the footring.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.12-1931
Primary reference Number: 71584
Glaisher Addition number: Gl. Add.26-1931
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: C.653-1928
Accession Number: C.2334 & A-1928
Accession Number: EC.12-1946
Accession Number: C.3142-1928
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