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Dish: Queen Anne
Pottery: Norfolk House (Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenwre painted in blue, yellow, and bluish-green, and sponged in blue with a standing figure of Queen Anne, initialled A R; border of blue and yellow bands and blue dashes
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in blue, yellow, bluish-green, and manganese-purple, and sponged in blue; the reverse has yellowish lead-glaze. Circular with everted rim, and curved sides, standing on a footring. Decorated in the middle with a standing figure of Queen Anne wearing a crown, and holding an orb in her left hand and a sceptre in her right. On either side of her are two sponged blue trees, and in the foreground, blue grasses on a greenish-blue ground. Round the outer edge there are blue and yellow bands, and blue dashes.
History note: Mr Freeman of Cambridge, from whom purchased for £5.10s.0d. in 1899 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 35.3 cm
Height: 5.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early#
Queen Anne
Circa
1702
CE
-
1714
CE
Probably made in a pottery in the London area, possibly at Norfolk House, Lambeth, Surrey
Decoration
blue, bluish-green, yellow, and manganese-purple
High-temperature colours
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed greyish-white, and painted in blue, bluish-green, yellow, and manganese-purple, and sponged in blue; the reverse covered with pale slip and yellowish-lead-glaze
Accession number: C.1635-1928
Primary reference Number: 72364
Old object number: 1008
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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