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Pot for Bear's Grease
Pottery: Unidentified Lambeth Pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in blue. Circular with curved sides and everted rim, standing on a footring which has been wiped free of glaze. The outside is decorated with a bear walking towards the left and the inscription 'Prepar'd by T. Townshend & Son Sold only by C: King Chymist Hay Market'
History note: A lady living in Essex whose father was believed to have been a London clergyman, and to have collected it there; Collins and Clarke, Cambridge, from whom purchased with three other items in 1922 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 4.2 cm
Height: 2.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1750
CE
-
Circa
1775
CE
Probably made at Lambeth. Thomas Townshend was ‘Chymist in Ordinary’ to George II with premises at the ‘Kings Arms and Golden head near Panton Street’, off the Haymarket in London. Bears' grease was then thought to be a cure for baldness.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
wiped off footring
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Throwing
: Earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed slightly bluish, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1348-1928
Primary reference Number: 71849
Old object number: 3926
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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