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Production: Unidentified Bristol pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with European and Chinese figures
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish white except for the base, and painted in blue. Octagonal with protruding corners, straight sides, and a flat top with central cylindrical mouth to take a cover, now missing. The top is decorated with four shaped panels enclosing chinese figures, reserved in a ground of four different diaper patterns. The two long sides are decorated respectively with a European gentleman standing with left hand on his hip and holding out his right to the side, and a European lady with her hands in a muff.The two narrow ends are each decorated with a vertical floral spray, and the four canted sides with the same diaper pattern.
History note: Bought in Cambridge in 1902 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 9.2 cm
Length: 9.9 cm
Width: 6.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
George III
Circa
1760
CE
-
1770
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Visible Surfaces
composed of
tin-glaze
( bluish-white)
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1537-1928
Primary reference Number: 72181
Old object number: 1299
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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