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Pottery:
Temple Back Pottery
Proprietor of pottery:
Cantle, Thomas
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue, green, yellow, and manganse-purple. Circular with a narrow rim, sloping sides, flat centre and recessed base. Decorated in the middle with a Chinese lady holding a fan under a curving bamboo tree. The rim has a border of alternating panels of trellis diaper and bamboo foliage all between narrow blue bands.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1740
CE
-
Circa
1750
CE
This is a common design on delftware plates. Fragments decorated with this pattern have been found among kiln-wast from the Temple Back Pottery in Bristol.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple)
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white, with pooling particularly on the back, painted on the front in blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1680-1928
Primary reference Number: 72441
Old object number: 343
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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