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Pottery:
Pickleherring Pottery
(Probably)
Proprietor of pottery:
Townsend, Thomas
(Southwark)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue
Dark buff earthenware, thrown, with applied handle, tin-glazed and painted in blue. Bulbous body with cylindrical neck, standing on a foot which is slightly concave underneath. The broad strap handle has a longitudinal depression on the exterior, and a pinched lower terminal. The body is decorated with 'birds on rocks' pattern in late-Ming style. The shoulder is decorated with a trellis pattern between sets of narrow horizontal bands, and on the neck there is scrolling foliage with a set of horizontal bands above. Below the main field there is a band of trellis pattern between sets of horizontal bands, and there is a broad band round the edge of the foot. The back of the handle is blue. Below the lower terminal is the date '1633'
History note: Mr Letts of 100-101, Great Russell Street, London from whom purchased for £25 on 11 October, 1916 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 23 cm
Height: 9 1/16 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, second quarter#
Charles I
Production date:
dated
AD 1633
The decoration, known as 'birds-on-rocks' was derived from Chinese Wanli period blue and white porcelain.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue)
Body
dark buff
Earthenware
white
Tin-glaze
Accession number: C.1296-1928
Primary reference Number: 71744
Old object number: 4044
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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