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Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, and red with flowering plants and grasses
Buff earthenware, slab-built and pierced, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue, green, and yellow. Rectangular with a recessed top pierced by a large circular central hole with nine smaller holes on each side. The lower edge is cut into a cupid's bow shape on the two long sides, and a simple curve on the ends, to produce four corner feet. The recessed top is painted blue overall. The two long sides are decorated with bamboo, flowering plants and grasses, and the short sides with a large flower with red edged petals, leaves, and grasses.
History note: Bought at a sale held at the Vicarage, Haslingfield (Cambs) on 3 June 1898 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 6.5 cm
Length: 12.5 cm
Width: 5.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century
Circa
1750
-
1760
The plant decoration was inspired by Oriental porcelain
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, green, yellow, and a little red)
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Slab-building
: Buff earthenware, slab-built and pierced, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and a little red high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1675-1928
Primary reference Number: 72430
Old object number: 305
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Flower brick" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72430 Accessed: 2024-12-23 03:07:59
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