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Punch bowl: C.1601-1928

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Pottery: Lambeth High Street Pottery
Proprietor of pottery: Griffith, William

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Description

Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, a little red with a fox-hunting scene andbianco-sopra-bianco boder inside and an Oriental coastal landscape outside

Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue, bianco-sopra-bianco, and a little red and yellow. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. The inside is decorated wth a hunting scene with two riders, two hounds and a red fox within a circular rococo C-curve and shell border entwined with a ribbon inscribed ‘Prosperity to Fox Hunting 1758’. Around the sides is a wreath of lily-like flowers and foliage in bianco-sopra-bianco. The exterior has an Oriental coastal landscape with junks, rocks, trees, Chinese figures, a bridge, and houses within a fenced compound, all in blue. The rim is yellow.

Notes

History note: Mr Stoner, London, from whom bought for £31.10s.0d. on 23 July 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 30.7 cm
Height: 11.8 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

18th Century, third quarter
George II
Production date: dated AD 1758

Note

Although bianco-sopra-bianco decoration was used extensively in Bristol, the high quality of the painting of this bowl suggests London as a more likely place for its manufacture.

School or Style

Rococo

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, a little red and yellow)

Materials used in production

bluish-white Tin-glaze
buff Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Buff earthenware, thrown, turned, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue, red, and yellow, and in bianco-sopra-bianco
Tin-glazing

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Prosperity to Fox Hunting 1758
  • Location: Inside
  • Method of creation: Painted in blue
  • Type: Inscription

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1601-1928
Primary reference Number: 72290
Old object number: 4165

Audit data

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

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

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