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Pottery:
Pickleherring Pottery
(Probably)
Pottery:
Rotherhithe Pottery
(Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with 'birds-on-rock' pattern
Dark buff earthenware, thrown, with pierced neck, and applied handle, tin-glazed and painted in blue. Globular body with a slender neck pierced by three rows of spaced holes, standing on a solid foot which is slightly concave underneath. The wall behind the lower end of the tubular handle is pierced to permit the contents to be drawn up it to a tube which runs round the rim and has a sucking spout at right angles to the handle. A hole under the top of the handle must be blocked if this is to be possible. The lower part is painted with flowers and birds standing on rocks, ending on each side of the handle wth a broad vertical line between two narrow lines. On the neck there are two horizontal stripes and diagonal lines, and round the foot three horizontal lines. The handle and the tube round the mouth are striped.
History note: Mr Wallace Cash, Wincanton, Somerset from whom bought on 14 March, 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 15.2 cm
Height: 6 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, third quarter#
Charles II
Circa
1640
CE
-
1645
CE
Made in Southwark, probably at either Pickleherring or Rotherhithe
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue)
Visible Surfaces
composed of
tin-glaze
Body
Neck
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1297-1928
Primary reference Number: 71745
Old object number: 4047
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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