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Pottery: unidentified London pottery
Buff earthenware, with slightly greenish tin-glaze, painted in blue. The circular plate has a narrow sloping rim and a shallow well. It is painted in the middle with a large flower on a stem with a detached flower head on each side, and round the rim with four stylized leaf motifs alternating with a small curved spray.
History note: Unknown owner at Barrington, near Cambridge; Mr Morley, a Cambridge dealer, from whom bought on 25 April 1894 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trintiy College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.7 cm
Diameter: 9 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
George III
Circa
1750
CE
-
1770
CE
The shape indicates London manufacture
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
buff
Earthenware
slightly greenish
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Buff eathenware, covered with slightly greenish tin-glaze and painted in blue high-temperature colour; the glaze is thick and pooling on the back
Accession number: C.1361-1928
Primary reference Number: 71865
Old object number: 79
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Plate" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71865 Accessed: 2024-11-23 16:23:09
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University of Cambridge}}
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