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Pottery: Unidentified Lambeth Pottery
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white, painted in blue, olive-green, red, and manganese-purple. Circular with a sloping rim, curved sides and flat centre. In the middle is a dolphin spouting water flanked by blue plants, and on the rim four blue crosses with red spots in the spaces alternating with green Chinese scrolls (?) bound with blue ribbons.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1740
CE
-
1760
CE
Probably made in Lambeth
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, olive-green, red, and manganese-purple)
buff
Earthenware
greyish-white
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, covered with greyish tin-glaze and painted in blue, olive-green, red, and manganese-purple high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours
Accession number: C.1467-1928
Primary reference Number: 72047
Old object number: 1471
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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