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Pottery:
Rotherhithe Pottery
(Probably)
Pottery:
Pickleherring Pottery
(Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware mug, the underside of which is slightly concave with a low, narrow, recessed foot. The handle is twisted, with a protruding terminal that is square ended. The body is decorated with vertical rows of bosses, which were pushed outwards. The glaze is white, and the underside is almost wiped clean of the glaze.
History note: Robert Drane, Cardiff; sold Sotheby's, 3 July 1916, lot 358, bought by Mr Stoner for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridgei
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 21.5 cm
Width: 17.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Mid#
Commonwealth
Circa
1650
CE
-
1660
CE
Tin-glazed earthenware potteries were operating at Montague Close, and Pickleherring in Southwark, and at Rotherhithe, at the time that this mug is likely to have been made, and of these Rotherhithe or Pickleherring seem the most likely for its manufacture.
Body
Accession number: C.1283-1928
Primary reference Number: 71727
Old object number: 4092
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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