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Pottery:
Pickleherring Pottery
(Probably)
Proprietor of pottery:
Newnham, Richard
Dish with lobed sides, tin-glazed and painted in blue with a coat-of-arms, surrounded by radiating panels of buildings in landscapes alternating with formal flowers and foliage.
Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue. Circular with everted wavy rim divided into alternately large and small lobes, and a deep well, convex in the middle, and with a slight footring on the back. Decorated with a shield of arms (on a fesse engrailed, double cotised of plain cotices, three martlets), with helmet, crest (a demy lion rampant), and mantling. The wide lobes on the sides are decorated with buildings in landscapes, and the narrow lobes with differing sprays of formal flowers and foliage. On the reverse there is a central motif made up of a crossed square with squares in each section, and a circle on each point, superimposed on another square, surrounded on the edge of the base and sides by circles with three tufts on the top, and groups of three wavy radial stripes.
History note: London
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 35.8 cm
Height: 8.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Mid#
Commonwealth
Circa
1650
CE
-
1660
CE
Probably made at the Pickleherring pottery in Southwark.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue)
buff
Earthenware
white
Tin-glaze
Press-moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1309-1928
Primary reference Number: 71768
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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