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Pottery:
Redcliff Back
(Probably)
Proprietor:
Frank, Richard
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with a Chinese lake scene, and bianco-sopra-bianco border
Buff earthenwar tin-glazed pale lavender-blue , painted in yellow, green, blue and manganese-purple high-temperature colours, and in opaque white in bianco-sopra-bianco technique. Circular with a scalloped and fluted rim, shallow curved sides, flat centre, and recessed base. Painted in the middle with a Chinese lake-scene with a large rock, buildings, two figures, and a boat within a narrow border of wicker-pattern alternating with pairs of stylized leaves or ferns. The rim is decorated in bianco sopra bianco with a border of V-shaped motifs, alternating with circles, paired scrolls, and a bud or arrowhead one above the other.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1760
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( in yellow, green, blue and manganese-purple, and in opaque white)
buff
Earthenware
pale lavender blue
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware with pale lavender-blue tin-glaze painted in high-temperature colours, yellow, green, blue and manganese-purple, and in opaque white in bianco-sopra-bianco; three peg marks on the back of the rim
Accession number: C.1702-1928
Primary reference Number: 72481
Old object number: 502
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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