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Lambeth High Street Pottery
(Pottery)
Griffith, Abigail
(Proprietor of pottery)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greenish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and red. Circular with a sloping rim, shallow sides, and flat centre with recessed base. Decorated in the centre with a rock, a flowering bush, and a parrot standing on a branch, and on the rim with three branches of stylized flowers and foliage.
History note: Sold by an unknown owner near Lakenheath to Mr Morley, Cambridge dealer, from whom purchased in 1894 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Third quarter of 18th century
George III
Circa
1765
CE
-
1775
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, green, yellow, and red)
buff Earthenware greenish Tin-glaze
Moulding : Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed greenish-white and painted in blue, green, yellow, and red high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1479-1928
Primary reference Number: 72065
Old object number: 602
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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