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Pottery: Unidentified Bristol pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware with a powdered manganese ground and circular reserves painted in blue with flowers.
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed, and decorated with a powdered manganese ground and painting in blue. Rectangular with recessed top and base. The top has a central square aperture flanked by groups of six small circular holes. The sides are decorated with two circular reserves and the ends with one, all painted in blue with sprays of flowers. The top has two reserves in the shape of carnations outlined in blue, and a border round the central aperture.
History note: Not known before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 7.0 cm
Height: 8.2 cm
Width: 14.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1740
CE
-
Circa
1750
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( manganese-purple and blue from cobalt)
buff Earthenware
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, probably slab-built, tin-glazed and decorated with a powdered manganese ground, and painting in blue
Accession number: C.1594-1928
Primary reference Number: 72277
Old object number: 55
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Flower brick" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72277 Accessed: 2023-12-04 13:23:42
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: C.1544-1928
Accession Number: ANE.206.1934
Accession Number: ANE.62a.1930
Accession Number: ANE.87.1930
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