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Possibly
Brislington Pottery
(Pottery)
Possibly
Unidentified Bristol pottery
(Pottery)
Perhaps
unidentified London pottery
(Pottery)
Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed and painted in blue. Oval with forty slanting flutes on the sides and a flat base. Decorated on the flat surface with a woman seated at a spinning wheel outside a cottage in a landscape. The sides have a repeating radiating pattern comprising four circles with a dot in the centre of each one above the over, flanked by wide stripes, and separated from the next repeat by a narrow stripe.
History note: Mr Wake, Fritchley, near Crich, Derbyshire, in whose Sale catalogue no 316, it was no. 130, and was bought for 10s.0d. on 2 December 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 2.1 cm
Length: 15.2 cm
Width: 10 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Early 18th Century
Queen Anne
Circa
1707
CE
-
1725
CE
The use of this little dish is undetermined. Its size suggests that it could have been used as a spoon tray or for sauce or sweetmeats, but it might have been used on a dressing table
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt) Visible Surfaces composed of tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Press-moulding : Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed except for the base, and painted in blue high-temperature colour
Accession number: C.1538-1928
Primary reference Number: 72183
Old object number: 2416
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Spoon tray"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72183 Accessed: 2022-08-17 10:45:00
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