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Pottery: unidentified London pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with a dark brownish-orange rim
Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue and dark brownish-orange. Circular, with deep curved sides, standing on a high footring. In the middle there is a circular medallion with a scrolled border enclosing a drinking scene showing three men seated at a table on which is a punch bowl. The man in the centre holds up a goblet. The other two are smoking church-warden pipes, and the one on the right is stirring the punchbowl. Behind the table there is a window, flanked by two tricorne hats hanging on the wall. Below the rim there is a border of ships, a whale and an island on a narrow strip of sea. The exterior is decorated on one side with the Tower of London with the name EDWARD LESTER above. On the other side there is a squad of six men carrying muskets over their shoulders, perhaps militia, commanded by an officer, and a large trophy of arms comprising a canon, flags, pikes, and a drum. On either side there is a standing soldier wearing a tall mitre cap of a Fusilier or Grenadier demonstrating two drill positions associated with fixing bayonets. The rim is painted dark brownish-orange. The underside is dated '1734'.
History note: Cecil Davis, 8 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, Kensington Road, London, from whom purchased for £20 on 13 June 1922 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 25.7 cm
Height: 11.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, second quarter#
George II
Production date:
dated
AD 1734
A comparable bowl bearing the name Samuel Campion, and the date 1734 is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
The subject of the decoration suggests strongly that this bowl was made in London. On accession the bowl had brass mount on the foot which concealed the date. See Documentation, Archer, 2013 for a discussion of the decoration and the relationship of the bowl to another dated 1734 in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
bluish-white and shiny
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue, and on the rim in dark brownish-orange
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1517-1928
Primary reference Number: 72130
Old object number: 3788
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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