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Pottery: Unidentified Lambeth Pottery (Probably)
Buff earthenware with greyish tin-glaze painted and sponged in manganese-purple and yellow. Circular with sloping slightly concave rim, shallow sloping sides, and flat centre. Archer's shape I. In the middle there is a sponged tree with multiple trunks flanked by a fence, enclosed by two concentric yellow circles. The edge of the rim is encircled by a thick scalloped manganese-purple line.
History note: Said by Mr Morley, a Cambridge dealer, to have come from Fordham (Cambs) ; Mr Coulson, an attendant at the Antiquarian Museum from whom purchased on 10 December 1904 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-06) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1740
CE
-
1760
CE
Probably made at Lambeth
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( yellow and manganese-purple)
buff
Earthenware
greyish-white; thick and pooling on reverse
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed greyish-white, painted in yellow, and painted and sponged in yellow and manganese-purple high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours
Accession number: C.1469-1928
Primary reference Number: 72049
Old object number: 387
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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