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Tin-glazed earthenware decorated with reserves painted in blue in a powdered manganese-purple ground: C.1593-1928

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Current Location: In storage

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tin-glazed earthenware decorated with reserves painted in blue in a powdered manganese-purple ground

Maker(s)

Production: Lambeth High Street Pottery (Probably)
Proprietor of pottery: Griffith, William

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Description

Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white, and decorated with powdered manganese-purple, and painting in blue. Circular with curved sides, standing on a low foot with two holes pierced through it after glazing. The front has a manganese-purple ground with a central octagonal reserve surrounded by eight alternately hexagonal and fan-shaped reserves. The central reserve is decorated with bamboo and flowering plants, and the reserves on the sides with a winged insect in the hexagons and a flower in the others.

Notes

History note: Mrs Kingsland, Croydon from whom bought in January 1894 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 22.1 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, Mid
Circa 1740 CE - 1745 CE

School or Style

Oriental

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue and manganese-puurple)

Materials used in production

greyish Tin-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Moulding : Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed greyish-white, powdered in manganese-purple, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1593-1928
Primary reference Number: 72276
Old object number: 473

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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