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Production: Vauxhall Pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow and red with flowers in vases and Chinese figures
Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, and red. The circular bowl stands on a footring. It has a pyramidal spike in the middle, curved sides and a narrow rim on which the slightly domed cover rests. Its knob is missing. The exterior of the bowl is decorated with two Chinese figures bending forwards, alternating with stylized flowers and foliage in vases with pairs of blue leaves between them. The cover has three floral sprays alternating with three winged insects and three four-petalled flowers. The stump of the knob is encircled by two blue bands and the outer edge by a broad blue band.
History note: Mr Jolley, Cambridge from whom bought for 10s.0d. on 25 November 1904 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 6.5 cm
Width: 14.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
1720s
George I
George II
Circa
1720
CE
-
1730
CE
The central spike indicates that this bowl was probably used for butter. Fragments of bowls with spikes have been found in Lambeth and at Vauxhall, and the decoration of this example links it to the pottery at the latter
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, and red)
Bowl
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Accession number: C.1695 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 72466
Old object number: 2197
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: C.2450 & A-1928
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