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Pottery:
unidentified London pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Unidentified Netherlandish pottery
(Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, and dark yellow with pomegranates and foliage
Dark buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed creamy-white, and painted in blue, green, and dark yellow; the reverse covered with a greyish lead-glaze clouded with tin-oxide. Of roughly circular form. Decorated in the middle with a lozenge containing the initials and date 'B/I A/1643' surrounded by fruit and foliage, and part of a simulated gadroon border
History note: John Bowden, Wardour Street, London, from whom purchased for £2 in December 1898 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Length: 26 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Mid#
Charles I
Production date:
dated
AD 1643
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, and dark yellow)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
( creamy white)
Back
composed of
lead-glaze
( greyish)
dark buff Earthenware
Press-moulding : Dark buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed creamy-white on the front and painted in blue, green, and dark yellow high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours; the reverse is lead-glazed grey; two stilt marks and signs of a third on the front
Accession number: C.1404-1928
Primary reference Number: 71936
Old object number: 2415
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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