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Pottery: Temple Back Pottery (Possibly)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue and manganese-purple. Circular with a wide sloping rim, shallow curved sides, and flat centre wth recessed base. In the centre there is a Chinese pavillion and a willow tree within a circle, all in blue. On the rim and sides there are three shaped medallions each containing a Chinese building and trees all in blue, reserved in a manganese ‘cracked ice’ ground.
History note: Mr Cater’s shop in Colchester where bought at an unrecorded date by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 23.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1765
CE
-
Circa
1775
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt, and manganese-purple)
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue and manganese-purple
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1595-1928
Primary reference Number: 72278
Old object number: 1327
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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