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Pottery: Norfolk House
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue
Buff earthenware, thrown, with applied handle, tin-glazed and painted in blue; most of the glaze has been removed from the base. The mug has a cylindrical neck, a depressed globular body, and a slightly convex disk base. The loop handle is of oval section with a rolled terminal. The body is decorated with a long label framed by a narrow and a wide blue line with a scalloped line running round the outer edge and three leaves at each corner. This bears the inscription ':GOD:BLES:KING:WILIAM:&:Q MARY:' Below the rim there is a horizontal line with alternately long and short pointed leaves projecting downwards from it.
History note: Mr S. Richards of Nottingham from whom purchased on 15 December, 1906 for £14.10s.0d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 11.5 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
William III and Mary II
Circa
1689
CE
-
1694
CE
Probably made at Norfolk House, Lambeth
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Mouth
Diameter 8.2 cm
Body
mostly wiped off the base
Tin-glazing
Earthenware
Accession number: C.1341-1928
Primary reference Number: 71836
Old object number: 3196
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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