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Pottery: Brislington Pottery
Buff earthenware tin-glazed white and painted in blue and turqoise-green.The pot has a bulbous body with a short cylindrical neck and is supported on three bird-shaped feet. It has a curved sucking spout in the middle of one side, and two handles formed by twojoined rolls of clay with twisting upper and lower terminals, and on their backs, a wavy serpent. The domed cover is in the form of a crown surmounted by a Maltese cross. The body and lid are painted with stylized plants, leaves and flowers with dotted circles in the background. The underside of the lid is inscribed ‘EK/1699’.
History note: Mr Hampton of Cunliffe and Co., 38 Hanway Street, London; bought for £31.10s.0d. on 21 November 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. He received it after conservation by Cunliffe on 7 February 1918.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 32.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
William III (1750-1702)
Production date:
dated
AD 1699
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue and turquoise green)
Body
Handles
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Accession number: C.1652 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 72393
Old object number: 4861
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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