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Production: Unidentified Bristol pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with a man and a hare
Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted and sponged in blue. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a high footring. The inside is decorated wth a central motif comprising two buds on stems and three sprays of foliage surrounded by two narrow concentric circles. Further up the sides there are eleven spaced groups of four dots. On the outside there is a landscape having on one side a man bending towards and a hare which is running to the left and looking back at him, and on the other, a building, and sponged trees.
History note: A family at Burwell, Cambridgeshire, from whom bought by Mr Morley, a dealer in Cambridge; bought from Mr Morley in 1893 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 25.5 cm
Height: 13 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, second quarter#
Circa
1725
CE
-
1740
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1566-1928
Primary reference Number: 72233
Old object number: 259
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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