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Production:
Temple Back Pottery
Proprietor of pottery:
Cantle, Thomas
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with Oriental marine landscape
Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue. The wall pocket is in the shape of half of an inverted bell with a flat back which is pierced by two suspension holes 2.2 cm down from the top edge. The visible area is painted with a lake or bay with a tree and shurbs on a small isalnd at the bottom and a promontory on either side at the top, one with trees and a building, the other with two figures and a tree. The knob at the bottom is blue overall.
History note: Mr Morley, Cambridge, who according to the purchaser's catalogue 'obtained it, I believe, at Mr Christmas's sale in Cambridge'; bought about 1897 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 14.6 cm
Width: 11.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1750
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Press-moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1576-1928
Primary reference Number: 72251
Old object number: 482
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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