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Probably
Rotherhithe Pottery
(Pottery)
Probably
Unidentified Southwark Pottery
(Pottery)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with stylized flowers and foliage, and inscribed '1649'
Dark buff earthenware, thrown as four pots joined together and linked by connecting holes in their bulbous parts, each having two handles entwined with the next vessel. Tin-glazed and painted in blue. The pots are painted with stylized flowers and foliage, and the handles are dabbed with spots. The date 1649 has one digit on each of the pots.
History note: Cyril Andrade, London, from whom purchased ion 22 June 1922 for £25 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 7.5 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Mid 17th century
Charles I
Commonwealth
Production date:
dated
AD 1649
: Charles I was beheaded in 1649
Made in London, at either a Southwark pottery or the Rotherhithe pottery
Decoration composed of cobalt-blue Cups
dark buff Earthenware Tin-glaze
Accession number: C.1306-1928
Primary reference Number: 71765
Old object number: 3819
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Fuddling cup"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71765 Accessed: 2022-08-18 06:17:35
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