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Pottery:
Pickleherring Pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Montague Close Pottery
(Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, pale green and shades of yellow with the arms of the City of London
Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, pale green, yellow, and orange. The salt is of rectangular form with a rectangular depression for the salt in the top, and four feet with foliage in slight relief on the corners above them. The two short sides are moulded in relief with oval shields and the two long sides with winged cupid's heads. The depression for the sale is painted in blue with a spray of foliage surrounded by scalloped edging, and the top edge has a border of blue dots and a broad blue line. The oval shields are painted with the Arms of the City of London, argent, a cross gules, in the first quarter a sword of the second, surrounded by a yellow and orange frame. The cherubs heads are painted in blue with yellow and orange wings. The feet and the foliage above them are pale green
History note: Louis Gautier, Chelsea, by whom brought to Cambridge on approval on 21 September 1928; purchased for £25 on 21 October, 1928 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.5 cm
Length: 13 cm
Width: 9.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, second quarter#
Charles I
Circa
1630
CE
-
1640
CE
Probably made at either the Pickleherring or Montague Close potteries in Southwark. The from was derived from Netherlandish or Italian salts, such as those made in Urbino or Deruta.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, pale green, yellow and orange)
off-white
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Moulded
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed off-white, and painted in blue, pale green, yellow and orange high-temperature (oxide) colours
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1418-1928
Primary reference Number: 71954
Old object number: 5091
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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