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Pottery: Lambeth High Street Pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, yellow, and manganese-purple with a Chinese marine landscape
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white, rather thinly in places and with one area of body exposed on the back. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple. Circular with a wide rim, shallow sloping sides, and flat centre with recessed base. Painted overall with a Chinese marine landscape with a pagoda on an island at top left, an island with two houses, rocks and a tree at middle right, and another island or the shore with trees and bushes in the foreground at the bottom of the scene.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher bequest
Diameter: 34.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century
Circa
1770
CE
-
Circa
1780
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, yellow and manganese-purple)
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue, yellow and manganese-purple
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1699-1928
Primary reference Number: 72470
Old object number: R.1577
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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