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Pottery: uncertain
Octagonal tin-glazed earthenware plate, painted in blue with a panel flanked by scrollwork and dragons, enclosing the inscription, '4 whit wyne and mery jels'
History note: Mr H. Ernest Hyde, Warstone Lane, Birmingham; bought in London in 1926 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Width: 21.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Formerly attributed to Lambeth, Surrey. Originally the fourth plate in a set of 'Merry Man' plates, each of which was inscribed with a line from a verse: 'What is a merry man?/Let him do what he can/To enetertain his guests/With wine and merry jests./But if his wife doth frown/All merriment goes down.'
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
Moulding
: Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1351-1928
Primary reference Number: 71852
Old object number: 4913
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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