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Dish: Tulips and other flowers growing from a mound
Pottery: Brislington Pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, pale turquoise-green, yellow, darker yellow, and brownish red with tulips and other flowers springing from a mound; round the edge, blue and yellow bands and blue dashes
Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, pale turquoise-green, yellow, darker yellow, and brownish red; reverse covered with bluish tin-glaze with numerous pin holes and speckles. Circular with deep curved sides, and slightly everted rim, standing on a footring. The front is decorated with three tulips, two lilies, six spiral buds and foliage springing from a pale turquoise-green mound. Round the edge there are blue and yellow bands and blue dashes
History note: Purchased in the neighbourhood of Oxford by the dealer, Abrahams, from whom purchased on 4 May 1894 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 35 cm
Diameter: 11 3/4 in
Height: 7.1 cm
Height: 2 3/4 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
James II
William III and Mary II
William III (1750-1702)
Anne
Circa
1685
CE
-
1705
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, pale turquoise-green, yellow, darker yellow, and brownish red)
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, pale turquoise-green, yellow, darker yellow, and brownish red; reverse covered with bluish tin-glaze with numerous pin holes and speckles
Accession number: C.1501-1928
Primary reference Number: 72101
Old object number: 14
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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