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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
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Mid 18th Century
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: 2023-03-24 10:32:30
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Flower brick
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-03-24 10:32:30|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-72277
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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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