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Pottery: unidentified London pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, with a continuous landscape with two men and a dog on one side and a lady and gentleman and a dog on the other. the top is pierced by twenty-one holes
Buff earthenware, probably slab-built, pierced, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue. The flower brick is rectangular with its top and base recessed and chamfered. The top is pierced by twenty small circular holes to take the flower stems. One long side is decorated with a dog and a seated and a standing figure in a landscape with a large tree on the right and distant buildings on the left. The other side has a lady and gentleman standing beside a broken column, and a rabbit in a landscap with a large tree on the right and distant buildings on the left. Both landscapes continue on the short ends. The holes in the top are encircled by petal-like strokes.
History note: Gog Magog House, Cambridgeshire; Duke of Leeds; sold Christie's, 4 May 1894, Porcelain, part of lot 29; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 8.1 cm
Height: 9.6 cm
Width: 16.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
George III
Circa
1745
CE
-
1765
CE
Top
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Slab-building
: Buff earthenware, probably slab-built, pierced, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1544-1928
Primary reference Number: 72194
Old object number: 49
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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