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Quintal Flower Vase
Pottery: Unidentified Bristol pottery (Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware decorated with applied floral sprays, and painted in blue, greyish-green, yellow, dull red, and manganese-purple with flowers, and a moth, and with a blue inscription 'WATERFIELD/1775'
Buff earthenware, with applied floral sprays, unevenly tin-glazed greyish-white, and painted in blue, greyish-green, yellow, dull red, and manganese-purple. The vase stands on a hollow rectangular socle, and is made up of five conjoined bases with spouts at the top for the stalks of the flowers. The upper part is painted with flowers, insects and butterflies, and the applied sprays are coloured naturalistically. The base has flowers on the ends, a butterfly on one longs side, and on the other an oval medallion enclosing WATERFIELD/1775 in blue. Its upper and lower borders are painted in manganese with 'cracked ice' decoration.
History note: Purchased from Mr Thomas Sutton, a dealer in Eastbourne for £12.10.0 in May 1905 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 29 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
George III
Production date:
dated
AD 1775
This form is very unusual in English delftware and its attribution to Bristol is not conclusive.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours
Moulding
: Tin-glazed earthenware, moulded in parts, assembled, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, greyish-green, yellow, dull red, and manganese-purple
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1685-1928
Primary reference Number: 72452
Old object number: 2320
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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