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Pottery:
unidentified London pottery
(Probably)
Pottery:
Unidentified Bristol pottery
(Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with mermaids, plant and diaper ornament
Buff earthenware, probably moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue. Octagonal with four concave sides and four canted corners, flat top and central cylindrical mouth to take a cover, now missing. The top is decorated with two trefoil-shaped panels containing flowers, reserved in a ground of small swirls. Two of the concave sides are decorated with a mermaid holding a mirror under a flowering tree enclosed by a rectangular outline, and two with a vertical floral spray, similarly enclosed. The canted corners are decorated with diaper ornament.
History note: Mr S.G. Fenton, London from whom bought for £2.10s.0d. on 15 December 1903 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.7 cm
Length: 8.7 cm
Width: 6.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Visible Surfaces
composed of
tin-glaze
( bluish-white)
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1534-1928
Primary reference Number: 72178
Old object number: 1965
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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