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Pottery: Brislington Pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and yellow
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white except for the base, and painted in blue and yellow. The house is rectangular with a high gabled roof with a ball finial at each end. At the front there is an arched doorway with a sloping penthouse above it, and a projecting platform in front of it with flanking posts. There is a small window to the viewer's left of the doorway, and a larger window, and a human mask in relief on the gable end. On the other end of the house there are two windows and a mask. The sides and roof are painted in blue with Chinese figures in landscapes, birds, insects, snails, leafy branches, and fleurs-de-lys. and on the end opposite to the door, the initials 'DW'. The ball finials on the roof are yellow.
History note: J.E. Hodgkin (d. 1912); sold by the executors of J.E. Hodking to Mr Wilfred Harding's, London from whom purchased for £25 in September 1913 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Camridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 17.2 cm
Length: 12.8 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Late 17th Century
Charles II
James II
William III and Mary II
William III (1750-1702)
Circa
1680
CE
-
1700
CE
This unique model of a house was attributed by Bernard Rackham to Lambeth, but the detached motifs on the house point to Brislington
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue and yellow)
Visible Surfaces
composed of
tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Hand-building : Buff earthenware, hand-built, and hollow, tin-glazed white except for the base, and painted in blue, and a little yellow high-temperature colour
Accession number: C.1417-1928
Primary reference Number: 71953
Old object number: 3652
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Model house" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71953 Accessed: 2023-05-28 07:40:40
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Accession Number: E.47.1907
Accession Number: C.2336-1928
Accession Number: E.58.1907
Accession Number: C.438-1928
£36.00
£30.00
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