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Pottery:
Pickleherring Pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Montague Close Pottery
(Possibly)
Dark buff earthenware, thrown, with applied handle, tin-glazed dull white, and painted in blue. The jug has a bulbous body, a cylindrical neck, and a vertically-grooved handle, and stands on a low incurved foot. The rim has a silver mount. The body is decorated with stylized flowers, foliage and fruit, with a border of slanting lines below the junction of the neck, which is decorated with false gadrooning. The silver mount has indications of a hinge to attach a cover, and is decorated with a band of scrolling foliage.
History note: Puttick & Simpson, London, 31 October, 1916, lot 129; bought by the head porter, Adams, for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 15.5 cm
Height: 6 1/8 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Mid#
Charles I
Commonwealth
Circa
1640
CE
-
1660
CE
Probably made in Southwark, rather than Aldgate as proposed by Noël Hume
Decoration
composed of
cobalt
Mount
composed of
silver
Body
Handle
Silver Mount
dark buff
Earthenware
dull white
Tin-glaze
Accession number: C.1291-1928
Primary reference Number: 71737
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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