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Pottery:
Unidentified Bristol pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Brislington Pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
unidentified London pottery
(Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, red, and faint manganese-purple with foliage in a medallion and a border of leaves in relief
Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed pinkish-white, overlaid in places with whiter glaze, painted in blue, green, red, and faint manganese-purple. Circular with twenty-eight bosses round the rim, and curved sides, standing on a footring. Decorated in the middle with a circular medallion filled with stylized blue flowers and leaves and faint manganese-purple outlines, surrounded by a circular band of red and blue lapets. The rim has a border of almond-shaped leaf or cone motifs with green leaves below them and red and blue criss crosses in the spaces round the edge.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 30 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early#
Anne
Production date:
circa
AD 1705
This dish may have been made in London, or at Brislington or Bristol
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue, green, red, and faint manganese)
Bosses
buff
Earthenware
pinkish
Tin-glaze
Press-moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, with twenty-eight bosses round the edge pushed up from behind with a blunt tool, and tin-glazed pinkish-white with whiter glaze overlaying it in some areas. Painted in blue, green, red, and a little faint manganese-purple
Tin-glaze
Accession number: C.1690-1928
Primary reference Number: 72458
Old object number: 655
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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