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Lambeth High Street Pottery
(Pottery)
Griffith, William
(Proprietor of pottery)
Buff earthenare, tin-glazed greenish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple. Circular with a sloping rim, shallow sides, flat centre, and recessed base. The centre is decorated with flowering plants springing from a lozenge-shaped blue and yellow motif. The rim is decorated with three motifs comprising two floral sprays extending on either side of a small hillock
History note: Bought at or near Cambridge by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 23 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Third quarter of 18th century
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple)
buff Earthenware greenish-white Tin-glaze
Press-moulding : Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed greenish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1477A-1928
Primary reference Number: 72062
Old object number: X 355
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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