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Pottery:
Redcliff Back Pottery
(Probably)
Proprietor:
Frank, Richard
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and bianco-sopra-bianco
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue and bianco-sopra-bianco. Circular with a wide slightly sloping rim, and shallow well, with recessed base. The middle is decorated with three Chinese figures: a man (?) holding a parasol. standing beside a fence and plants, a boy seated on a fence, and a woman standing behind a table on which there is a bowl. The group is enclosed by a circular border of two different patterns of zig-zags and wavy lines. The rim is decorated in bianco-sopra-bianco with stylized flowers, leaves, and pinecones, and round the edge there is a narrow geometric border. On the underside there are the script initials 'JEL' (?) over the underlined date '1765'.
History note: Said by the vendor to have belonged to the Lindsay family; Mr Miller, dealer in Wincanton, Somerset, from whom purchased on 30 April 1921 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Production date:
dated
AD 1765
Despite the label on the back. and the plate having been bought at Wincanton, there is no excavated evidence to indicate that it was made there, and the date, 1765, is after the pottery closed, probably around 1750. The bianco-sopra-bianco design indicates that it is most likely to have been made in Bristol. This was Dr J.W.L. Glaisher's view when he acquired it.
Decoration composed of tin-glaze ( bianco-sopra-bianco) high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue and bianco-sopra-bianco
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: script letters, and the date underlined
Inscription present: circa in italics
Accession number: C.1600-1928
Primary reference Number: 72289
Old object number: 4070
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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