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Pottery: Unidentified Southwark Pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue
Buff earthenware, the body thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue. The bulbous bottle stands on a slightly spreading foot and has a short narrow neck with a projecting band at the top; the handle is missing except for short stumps. The front is decorated with a cartouche enclosing the arms of the Cooks' Company, flanked by seated monkeys holding vine stems. To the left and right divided by the cartouche is the name IOHN LEE and on the neck above, the date '1650'.
History note: Fuller Maitland Stansted Hall, Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex; Mr J. Wordingham, Norwich from whom bought on 16 October 1922 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Mid#
Commonwealth
Production date:
dated
AD 1650
Potteries were operating at Pickleherring, Montague Close, and Rotherhithe at this date
Decoration
composed of
cobalt
Body
Accession number: C.1312-1928
Primary reference Number: 71775
Old object number: 3968
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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