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Dish with portrait of Queen Mary
Production: Brislington Pottery (Probably)
Dark buff earthenware, tin-glazed pale greenish-blue overall, and painted in blue. Circular with curved sides. Decorated in the middle with a half-length portrait probably of Queen Mary II wearing a crown, a necklace, and an ermine-trimmed cape over her dress. Above her shoulders are the initials 'Q' and 'M' , and on each side close to the edge of the dish, draped up curtains.
History note: Christie's, 2 December 1909, Pottery and Faience, part of lot 73; sold to Mr Stoner for £1.1s.0d.; sold by him for £6.10s. on 2 December 1909 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.9 cm
Height: 4.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Mary II
Circa
1689
CE
-
1694
CE
Brislington pottery was being run by Sarah Bennet II when Mary II and William III came to the throne, and was succeeded in 1690 by her husband Thomas Dickson
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( cobalt-blue)
Base
Diameter 10.3 cm
buff
Earthenware
pale greenish-blue
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed pale greenish-blue overall, and painted in blue; three stilt marks on the front; glaze removed from the edge of the foot
Accession number: C.1507-1928
Primary reference Number: 72112
Old object number: 3092
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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