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Production: Temple Back Pottery (Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with barber's implements
Buff earthenware, coated with bluish-white, shiny tin-glaze, and painted in blue. Circular with deep curved sides, and a wide flange with a depression for a soap ball, and a D-shaped area cut out. The inside is decorated with two concentric circles enclosing implements associated with barbers: a comb; locks of hair, a folding cut-throat razor, a shaving brush, a soap-ball and two lancets (?). Also cross-bones indicative of the barber's roll as a surgeon. The flange is decorated with two formal borders, perhaps stylized leaves.
History note: William Fuller Maitland collection, Stansted Hall, Stansted, Essex; Stansted Hall sale, September 1922; bought by Mr J. Wordingham, dealer, Hope House, Coram Road, Norwich, from whom purchased in Cambridge for £4 on 21 November 1922 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 26.3 cm
Height: 7.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1760
CE
-
1765
CE
The basin was held up to the customer’s or master’s chin to prevent lather from falling onto their clothes.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
bluish white and very shiny
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, probably thrown or thrown over mould, coated in bluish-white, very shiny tin-glaze, and painted in blue
Accession number: C.1516-1928
Primary reference Number: 72129
Old object number: 4013
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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