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Pottery:
Temple Back Pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Limekiln Lane Pottery
(Possibly)
Buff eathenware tin-glazed white, and decorated with powdered manganese-purple, and painting in blue. Circular with a sloping rim, curved sides and flat centre, standing on a footring. The front has a manganese-purple ground with an ocatagonal reserve in the centre, and eight alternatvely hexagonal and approximately fan-shaped reserves on the rim. The octagonal reserve encloses a coastal scene with three ships at sea, fortifications and a tree in the middle distance, and shrubs on hillocks in the foreground. The reserves on the rim each contain a stylized plant. The back is inscribed in blue with P/6 inside the footring.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 28.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Probably made in Bristol at either the Temple Back or Limekiln Lane potteries
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, and manganese-purple)
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, powdered in manganese-purple, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1592-1928
Primary reference Number: 72275
Old object number: 321
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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