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Pottery:
Unidentified Bristol pottery
(Probably)
Pottery:
Unidentified Liverpool pottery
(Perhaps)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed blush-white and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple. Circular with a slightly sloping rim, shallow curved well, and flat centre with recessed base. On the right three stems of bamboo (?) are growing on a fenced terrace. On the left two birds are standing in a pool and one is diving down from above.
History note: Said by the vendor,Mr Jolley of Cambridge, to have been obtained with four similar plates from Barkway Ash, Hertfordshire; bought for 3s. 6d. on 14 June 1894 by Dr J.W.L.Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1755
CE
-
1760
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple)
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple high-temperature colours
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1703-1928
Primary reference Number: 72482
Old object number: 289
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Plate" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72482 Accessed: 2024-11-24 09:50:23
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