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Pottery: unidentified London pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and manganese-purple with a fruit, a small bud or flower and leaves
Buff earthenware with greyish tin-glaze, painted in blue and manganese-purple. Circular with narrow sloping rim, shallow curved sides, and flat centre. Decorated in the centre with a fruit on a stalk, with two leaves above, a pair of leaves on each side, a trefoil leaf or flower and foliage below, surrounded by a manganese-purple circle. The veins on the large leaves were incised through the blue. Two manganese-purple bands encircle the inside edge of the rim. Three spur marks on the underside of the rim.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.3 cm
Height: 2.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-07-12) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
George III
Circa
1750
CE
-
1775
CE
Formerly attributed possibly to Vauxhall
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( cobalt and manganese oxides)
buff
Earthenware
greyish-white
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, covered with greyish tin-glaze, painted in blue and manganese-purple; three spur marks on the underside of the rim
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1379-1928
Primary reference Number: 71892
Old object number: 1396
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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