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Pottery:
Pickleherring Pottery
(Probably)
Pottery:
Rotherhithe Pottery
(Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue. Inscribed on a horizontal label, 'RICHARD: WRIGHT: &: ELIZABETH'
Buff earthenware, thrown, with applied handle, tin-glazed, and painted in blue. The cup has a bulbous body and stands on a foot, the loop handle is rounded on the exterior. Across the front there is a rectangular panel enclosing the inscription 'RICHARD : WRIGHT : & : ELIZABETH : 1650' . At either end there is a grotesque head with a protruding tongue at each end, and along the top and bottom a border of trefoil leaves or palmettes alternating with cone shapes formed by curved horizontal lines.
History note: Robert Drane (1833-1914), Cardiff; sold Sotheby's, 3 July 1916, Silver and works of art ….Jacobean relics, Stuart embroideries, lot 359; bought by Mr Stoner for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Beqjuest
Height: 11.4 cm
Width: 15.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Mid#
Commonwealth
Production date:
dated
AD 1650
: dated
The mug was probably made in Southwark at the Pickleherring Pottery or Rotherhithe pottery
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
Body
Handle
Accession number: C.1313-1928
Primary reference Number: 71776
Old object number: 4094
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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