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Three tier flower stand
Pottery: unidentified London pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware, the shoulders pierced to take flower stalks, painted in blue with floral sprays and various borders
Buff earthenware, thrown in three sections, tin-glazed slightly greenish-blue, and painted in blue. The lower stage is a bowl with curved sides and narrow rim standing on a footring, to the rim of which is luted a domed cover pierced by one large and forth-eight small holes to take the stalks of the flowers. The second tier is cylindrical with one large and ten smaller holes, and a protruding cylinder at the bottom which fits into the top of the dome of the bowl. The third tier is a smaller with one large and six smaller holes, and a protruding cylinder which fits into the second tier. The lower part of the bowl and the second tier are decorated with floral sprays. and insects. The domed and pierced area has four horizontal bands of formal ornament, and there are different formal borders round the upper edge of the second stage, and the upper and lower edges of the third stage.
History note: Bought by Mr Freeman of Cambridge in the North of England (Doncaster?) and sold to Mr Powell, of Cambridge,who sold it for £1 in March 1899, or 1900 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 26.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1780
CE
-
1790
CE
The flower stand lacks its uppermost section. A complete example is at Colonial Williamsburg.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Three Tiers
buff
Earthenware
slightly greenish, bluish-white
Tin-glaze
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, thrown in three sections, pierced, tin-glazed slightly greenish, bluish-white, and painted in blue; the glaze has been wiped off footring and the lower edge of the two separate tiers
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1539 & A & B-1928
Primary reference Number: 72184
Old object number: 962
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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